. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. iSA APPENDIX. Silkworm gut-linea are from two to four yarda, rA ire uaod aa lengths to be added to the line on the reel, either for fly or bottom- fishing. Lines for trolling are of several kinds, some of twisted silk, and others of silk and hair, but that sold by the tackle-makers, called patent trol- ling-lino is in most general use. A strong reel and from forty to sixty yards of line are requisite. Indian weed is a good material for bottom-t
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. iSA APPENDIX. Silkworm gut-linea are from two to four yarda, rA ire uaod aa lengths to be added to the line on the reel, either for fly or bottom- fishing. Lines for trolling are of several kinds, some of twisted silk, and others of silk and hair, but that sold by the tackle-makers, called patent trol- ling-lino is in most general use. A strong reel and from forty to sixty yards of line are requisite. Indian weed is a good material for bottom-tackle, but inferior to the silkworm gut. Eel-lines, night-lines, and trimmers, may be purchased ready fitted A winch, or reel, is used for running-tackle, and is generally made of brass, but I have seen them in Scotland made of wood, whore they are called pirns; the multiplying reel was formerly much used, but from its liability to be out of order, a plain reel, without a stop, is now gene- rally preferred. Reels are of various sizes, containing from twenty to one hundred yards of line. Bleak and minnow tackle are of endless variety in form and con- trivance, almost every experienced angler having his own peculiar . plan. The paternoster is a line used for Perch fishing, made of strong gut, and should be connected with a runniug-line by a fine steel swivel. It contains three hooks, the size Nos. 7, 8, or 9, placed at equal dis- tances from each other; the first near the bottom, where a small plum- met of lead is fixed to sink the lino, and the others each from eighteen inches to two feet apart. The hooks are so contrived by swivels as to revolve round the lino, and thereby give play to the live minnows with which they are to be FLOATS, Much care and judgment are required in adapting your float to the various streams or waters in which you angle. A deep and rapid river will require a float that will carry from sixteen to twenty of No. 4 shot. If the stream be deep and
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