Editing Sniggle

{{Short description|Type of fish hook used for catching eels}}
[[File:Sniggling.png|thumb|right|Sniggling apparatus{{clarify|reason=What are the various parts called and what are their functions?|date=February 2020}}]]
A '''sniggle''' is a type of [[fish hook]] used for catching [[eel]]s (known as snigs), using the method of '''sniggling'''.
A typical method of sniggling is to tie a fishing line to the middle of a large needle or fish hook.  The needle is then inserted along the body of an [[lob worm|earthworm]] which is used as [[Bait (luring substance)|bait]].  The needle is then stuck into a slender sniggling pole such as a hazel wand, eight to ten feet long.  This is used to insert the bait into promising holes or crannies in which eels tend to lurk.  When an eel takes the bait then, after a minute or two, the bait will have been swallowed whole and the line is then pulled to rotate the needle or hook within the body of the eel so snagging and catching it.<ref>{{citation |title=Chambers's encyclopædia |volume=3 |page=780 |year=1868}}</ref><ref>{{citation |author=Daniel Beard |title=Boy's Book of Sports |year=1886}}</ref>  Eels of two or three pounds weight may be caught by this method but may require a protracted tug of war to pull them from their hole.  This provides better sport and amusement than the use of traps or clod-fishing and is a good alternative for the angler when game fish such as trout will not rise.<ref>{{citation |title=A book on angling |author=Francis Francis |chapter=Angling and the Art of Sniggling |page=73 |year=1867 |publisher=Longmans, Green & Co.}}</ref>

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