22 CRAB, SHRIMP, AND LOBSTER LORE. 



end of your fishing-line through the ring, and walk 

 back with it some distance up the beach, allowing the 

 other end to be given off the reel until the spot at 

 which the first end was dropped is reached. The line 

 will now be doubled ; one half has hooks on short 

 traces, as many as it is thought expedient to use, 

 mounted on it. The other half is free from hooks, in 

 order that it may run through the ring without entan- 

 glement. A small piece of stick is knotted on the line 

 close to the first hook, so that it cannot be pulled through 

 the ring, as shown in the illustration on p. 21. 



The arrangement is now complete and ready for 

 baiting. It will be seen that as one line is dra^vn in, 

 the other travels out towards the block, so that as the 

 fish are hooked they are brought to land, the hooks are 

 fresh baited, and the contrivance hauled out again 

 without the trouble of throwing the lead. As the tide 

 comes the fisherman walks back until he^ reaches high- 

 water mark. 



On some of our coasts a great number of Crabs are 

 taken with the crah-hooh. This is a sharp strong 

 hook of tough iron, fastened to the end of a stout 

 w^ooden staff, or pole, and the best time to use it 

 is when the sea recedes duriug spring tides, and 

 makes what among fishermen, is called a '■^ great out.'' 

 At such times a great number of deep rock pools and 

 hollow ledges become accessible, which during ordinary 



