TACKLE AND OUTEIT. 
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to make these rings, but you will soon find you 
can. 
The usual bait for dorado is the spoon. I 
have read of their being taken by spinning with 
a natural bait, and possibly a natural bait is 
best, as it is in most other cases : but I cannot 
describe it as I know nothing about it. My 
only advice would be to use a spinning flight 
composed of large single hooks, not triangles. 
But everyone must have spoons in his outfit, for 
not only is natural bait much more troublesome, 
but you are dependent on being able to catch 
the small fish required, which you cannot 
always do when you want. 
Of the many spoon baits we tried, three were 
best, in the following order. First of all a 
copper spoon, two and three-quarter inches 
long. It weighs, plain and unmounted, exactly 
one ounce. Next, a thin strip of metal, either 
all silver or silver one side and copper the 
other, five inches long, and one and a half inches 
wide at the broadest part. Thirdly, a heavy 
spoon, copper and silver, in shape almost an 
equilateral triangle, two and a half inches long. 
These sizes are not final, but you should not 
diverge too widely. Do not use very big 
spoons. For the ordinary spoon, apart from 
the metal strip, three and a half inches is an 
outside length. 
I consider that there are two ways of arming 
spoons for dorado, each of which has advan- 
