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hooks rebaited, a new sinker put on, and the line run overboard again. 
Ulaula is the principal species captured. 
In deep-sea fishing the Japanese generally use but one hook on a 
line, and this is attached to the end of it. 
In fishing for mahimahi (dolphin) the Japanese use a rope about 
2,000 feet in length. At intervals of 60 feet are attached branch lines 
about 60 feet in length, with a hook attached to each. Akule are used 
as bait. When fishing, the line is paid out from the boat, the main 
line being kept on the surface by buoys made from the cotton tree, 
while the branch lines hang down- 
ward. The line is set in the morn- 
ing and taken up at noon, the fisher- 
men lying off in their boats in the 
meanwhile. This fishing is carried 
on about 10 miles offshore. 
A line with a piece of lead tied in 
a horizontal position to the end of 
the line, at each end of which is at- 
tached a short line with a hook, is 
used principally for catching kole. 
The gall of the hee, prepared in one 
of the numerous ways given under 
the heading of ‘* Baits,” is used for 
bait. This manner of fishing is 
called by the natives ‘‘ okilo hee.” 
The native is a great lover of the 
hee, and has a number of methods of 
capturing it, one of the most inter- 
esting of which is with the cowrie 
shell. One or more cowrie shells 
of the Mauritiana or Tiger varieties 
are attached to a string. When 
only one is used an oblong pebble of 
about the size of the shell is tied to 
the face of it, a hole is pierced in 
one end of the back of the shell, 
through which a line is passed, and 
after being fastened here a few inches of the line is allowed to hang 
below the shell, to which a hook, whose point stands almost perpen- 
dicular to the shaft or shank, is attached. Only shells with small red 
spots breaking through a reddish-brown ground have an attraction 
for the hee, and they will not rise to any other kind. Whenever 
the natives have a shell with suitable spots but with a wrong-colored 
back-ground, they secure the desired hue by slightly steaming the shell 
over a fire of sugar-cane-husks. On arriving at the fishing-ground 
































Deep-sea Fishing Line. 
