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place the baited hooks to the best advantage, and 

 you know where to search for them without loss of 

 ;toe J for, when fastened to any thing moveable, you 

 ,Qften have a great deal of trouble in recovering your 

 iine, and that frequently fifty yards or more from 

 whence you have laid it 3 and when you have brought 

 it to hand, it is such a confused mass of weeds. Eels, 

 and the slime from those which have twisted oflf, that 

 Jtardly any other than the most patient of Anglers 

 would find resolution enough to untwist or disen- 

 iangle the number of knots, which his line and hooks 

 are tied in -, but this ought to be done immediate- 

 ly, and the line cleared and washed from all impu- 

 rities, and carefully dried, or it soon rots. 



When you cast in the water your chain line, 

 which is made fast to bricks, or any thing else, 

 past in the first brick underhanded, up the stream, 

 and the other down or across the stream j then 

 make a note in your pocket-book of something on 

 the bank, or some other object, that you may readily 

 find it again. 



When laying lines from a boat, fasten one end of 

 the line (having all your hooks first baited) to a 

 Stake, brick, or whatever you intend 3 then push 

 f)ff the boat, and let the hooks drop in the water, 

 regularly, as the boat goes down the stream, until 

 they are all out 5 then fasten the other end of your 

 lihe. This is the way the fishermen, on various 

 puts of the sea coast, lay their short lines, called 

 trots. In regard to baits for Eel lines, after much 



