The Complete angler; a practical guide to bottom fishing, trolling, spinning, and fly-fishing, with a chapter on sea fishing by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fishing
Publisher: New York, Street & Smith
Published: 1891-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

bait, but hooks the fish in an entirely different manner, which will be better understood by a reference to the following representation of the Pennell trace and its description. This is one of the best among scores of other flights, and I use it for the purpose of illustrating the principles of spinning, because it has the merit of simplicity, and it will be found in practice nearly all that the angler can desire. I have an artificial bait from Sweden before me, arm,ed nearly in the same manner. The angler should keep two or three of the smaller sizes by him. Fig. 36 shows a flight which is made some six inches long, and is fitted for a fair sized dace. Fig. 27 shows the manner of baiting the fish, a gudgeon, on a 4^ inch flight, which is made with only one flying triangle, as the three brazed hooks tied to the short lengths of gnt A and B are called, and which in spinning fly loose, not attached to the fish. The tail hook with its reverse is made in one piece, and should be round bent to give the proper turn to the fish. The reverse hook is recommended to be made on the sneck principle, and is firmly whipped to a piece of strong clear gut. The lip-hook is made to move up and down the line by the following means: a piece of fine wire or gimp is whipped to the side of the hook, so as to leave two loops, an upper and a lower one, shown at 0. The gut is passed upwards through the lower loop, twisted two or three times round the shank of the hook, and then passed through the upper one. A good lip-hook is made with the loops formed out of the steel of the hook itself. On loosening the coils of gut round the shank of the gut, it may be slipped into any required position.

To bait the flight it is necessary to first fix the tail-hook in the manner described by Mr. Pennell himself. The point is inserted " by the side or lateral-line of the bait near to the tail, and passing it under a broadish strip of the skin, and through the end of the fleshy part of the tail, bring it out as near the base of the tail-fin as possible. Next insert the small reversed hook in such a position as to curve the bait's tail nearly to a right angle; finally pass the lip-hook through both its lips, always putting it through the upper lip first when the bait is a gudgeon, and through the lower one first with all others. This is very important in securing a very brilliant spin." Care should, however, be tp,ken that the upper part of the body should be perfectly

straight,- and that there should be no strain on the lips of the bait. Fig. 27 also shows the fish baited as above described; the upper triangle being dispensed with in the smaller fish.

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