FISHING TACKLE AND HOW TO MAKE IT. 



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with a hook and Hne. They weighed seventy-two and-one- 

 half pounds the pair. 



Of all live-bait tackles, however, I prefer (individually) the 

 "paternoster " (so-called from its succession of hooks, proba- 



Fig. 52- 

 bly, like beads on a rosary). Fig. 53 shows it. The main line 

 may be either gimp or gut, and the hooks are attached as 



Fig- 53- 

 shown. At the lower extremity is a pear-shaped lead. This 

 tackle is cast out gently, and as gently worked in toward 

 the boat; and thus it searches the water within considerable 



