. 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. CHAIN LINES FOR EELS. 139 of a Large bed of weeds to lay lines iri;, and they are generally well paid for their trouble 3 and those who lay twenty hooks baited, and each hook fastened to a single line, will take more Eels than those who lay twice the number of baited hooks, fastened to a chain line.—Note, when chain lines are laid, there is no occa- sion for bullets on the lines, because the bricks
. 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. CHAIN LINES FOR EELS. 139 of a Large bed of weeds to lay lines iri;, and they are generally well paid for their trouble 3 and those who lay twenty hooks baited, and each hook fastened to a single line, will take more Eels than those who lay twice the number of baited hooks, fastened to a chain line.—Note, when chain lines are laid, there is no occa- sion for bullets on the lines, because the bricks or turfs keep them in their places, which is on the bot- tom or ground.—(See the Cut.) (^. Chain Line. The Chain Line is so named, from having a number of hooks baited and tied to it, and is fitted in the fol- lowing manner : take from twelve to twenty yards, according to the number of hooks you intend to fasten to it, of stout cord, about the size of line which sash windows are hung with ; these sash lines are used by some Anglers 3 others use thin clothes' lines, or roast- ing jack line, either of which will do : fasten one end of the line by a loop to a brick, or a piece of square turf, cut from a field or bank (See the Cut) : the hooks which you intend to bait should be tied to about half a yard, or less, of trolling line, gimp, platted Dutch twine, breeches-makers' thread, or some other strong thin cord, and baited in the same manner as already described for the single, or peg-line, fastening the. 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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