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times use more violence than what is necessary 5 and 

 besides, when a heavy Fish is hooked, much stress is 

 laid on this swivel while killing it. — ^Note. For live- 

 bait- fishing, a trace, made of a foot of gut, looped at 

 one end, and a hook swivel on the other, answers as 

 well as two swivel traces, and is more easily made 

 and used. 



When you use a live-bait for Jack-fishing, and a 

 float on the trolling line, and to which line you fix 

 traces, those traces must be leaded so as to sink the 

 float to a certain depth j for which purpose, you may 

 use a dip-leadj or three or four swan shots 5 the dip- 

 lead or shot should be fixed just above the hook 

 swivel, as represented in the Cut at the head of the 

 Chapter, fsee Cuts 4 and 5 J . When trolling with the 

 gorge-hook, or snap-fishing with a dead bait, no lead is 

 wanted on the traces, because the gorge-hook is leaded 

 on the shank ; and all hooks that are used^ baited with 

 a dead bait in snap-fishing, have a drop-lead attached 

 to them, which may be seen by a reference to the Cuts 

 of them in Chap. IV. 



I make it a rule always to have a spare trace or two 

 in my tackle book, ready fitted, of gimp and twisted 

 gut, either for trolling, snap-fishing, or live-bait-fish- 

 ing, that, in case of accident, I may lose no time in 

 repairing, &c. when at my sport, but leave that job 

 for a rainy day at home. In the Summer months, 

 when the waters get low and bright, from a continu- 

 ance of dry weather, I have found, when I used traces 

 made of the choicest twisted gut, instead of gimp. 



