. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. 132 'HE PIKE, & C . account of the breadth of their figures; but to either of these, and to the roach particularly, it can be readily and conve- niently attached. Choose a fresh dead roach, of from three to five ounces ; insert the small hook of the spring as above directed for the common snap, but a little deeper, so as to take a firmer and deeper hold, than when applied to the livi
. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. 132 'HE PIKE, & C . account of the breadth of their figures; but to either of these, and to the roach particularly, it can be readily and conve- niently attached. Choose a fresh dead roach, of from three to five ounces ; insert the small hook of the spring as above directed for the common snap, but a little deeper, so as to take a firmer and deeper hold, than when applied to the living one. If the apparatus, from its size, must project beyond the line of the fish form, let it be above ; but by no means allow the beud of the hooks to appear under the ventral surface. The figures Nos. 4 and 5 on Plate No. 2, exhibiting the snap sprung and unsprung, furnish a sufficient exemplification of its mode of action; in seizing of the bait, the pike or jack draw the hooks out of the detaining frame, and in conse- quence they immediately expand and fix themselves into the jaws of the fish which has seized it. " Of the Hooks in Snap-Fishing. We must again say, it is of great consequence that those to strike the pike be so placed as to easily clear themselves; if, therefore, it is ex- pected of these hooks that they shall support and play the fish, and yet be ready at a moment to disengage themselves from this attachment, then too much is expected of them; and when they ought to be free, to strike at once into the mouth of the pike, they are apt to be buried deep in the body of the bait. It was purposely to relieve this strain on the bait that we added to the traces a small hor>k, which then left the large hooks at liberty to disengage themselves: for on the small hooks the stress of the action of playing the fish, was then altogether placed. It is on this principle that the snap-baits in general should be formed, and where they have not some sustaining hooks, in
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