. The angler's guide; being a new, plain, and complete practical treatise on the art of angling for sea, river, and pond fish, deduced from many years practice, experience, and observation. Fishing. 246 TIIi; TROLLER S GUIDE. of flat cork, about five or six inches in diameter, witli a groove to admit the line : the hook is baited with a Gudgeon, Roach, or some small Fish ; you then draw as much line out as admits the bait to hang about a foot from the bottom. There is a small slit in the cork, that you pass the line in, to prevent it unwind- ing : as soon as the Jack or Pike seizes the bait, t
. The angler's guide; being a new, plain, and complete practical treatise on the art of angling for sea, river, and pond fish, deduced from many years practice, experience, and observation. Fishing. 246 TIIi; TROLLER S GUIDE. of flat cork, about five or six inches in diameter, witli a groove to admit the line : the hook is baited with a Gudgeon, Roach, or some small Fish ; you then draw as much line out as admits the bait to hang about a foot from the bottom. There is a small slit in the cork, that you pass the line in, to prevent it unwind- ing : as soon as the Jack or Pike seizes the bait, the line loosens, and runs from the groove of the cork free, and allows the Fish to retire to his haunt, and pouch at leisure. These floating trimmers are named, by some, the man-of-war trimmers, from the largeness of the cork j and, by others, fox-hounds; and may be purchased at all the principal fishing-tackle shops. Some use only a wisp of straw or rushes, and tie two or three yards of string to a baited hook, then throw the whole in the water, and often kill with a trimmer so rudely 1. Rod to place and take up trimmers and dead lines. 2. Bank-runner trimmers, baited with a live bait. The Bank-Runner, Trimmer, 8^c. The bank-runner is mostly used in the day, while the Angler is fishing for Roach, Barbel, &c. These *l. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Salter, T. F. (Thomas Frederick), fl. 1814-1826. London, Sherwood
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