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Baits for Muskellunge and Pike
Baits of exceedingly various sorts are used for muskellunge and pike, minnows natural and artificial, frogs, spoons, and spinners, and some of the floating baits for bass, the last made larger and stronger for muskellunge fishing, but the most effective are a large natural minnow or a common trolling spoon size four or five. A steel wire leader should always be used. Gimp leaders rot inside and will smash without warning visible to the angler. In case a spinning bait is used, such as the Archer spinner with minnow, frog, or pork-rind, use a swivel gang composed of six or eight medium sized bronze barrel swivels, or a trolling "keel" or "coin" sinker, the last being a round, flat sinker the size and shape of a five-cent piece which, when bent on the line, forms a keel that effectually prevents the line from twisting and kinking. Another device to prevent line kinking is known as the "Pilot"; this may be used also to cause the bait to run at will on the surface or considerably submerged.
Camp, Samuel Granger. The Fine Art of Fishing. New York: Outing Pub., 1911. Print.
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