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Silkworm gut-lines are from two to four yards, and are used as 

 lengths to be added to the line on the reel, either for fly or bottom- 

 fishing. 



Lines for trolling are of several kinds, some of twisted silk, and others 

 of silk and hair, but that sold by the tackle-makers, called patent trol- 

 ling-line is in most general use. A strong reel and from forty to sixty 

 yards of line are requisite. 



Indian weed is a good material for bottom-tackle, but inferior to the 

 silkworm gut. 



Eel-lines, night-lines, and trimmers, may be purchased ready fitted 

 up. 



A winch, or reel, is used for ininuiug-tackle, and is generally made 

 of brass, but I have seen them in Scotland made of wood, where they 

 are called pirns ; the multiplying reel was formerly much used, but from 

 its liability to be out of order, a plain reel, without a stop, is now gene- 

 rally preferred. Reels are of various sizes, containing from twenty to 

 one hundred yards of line. 



Bleak and minnow tackle are of endless variety in form and con- 

 trivance, almost every experienced angler having his own peculiar 

 plan. 



The paternoster is a line used for Perch fishing, made of strong 

 gut, and should be connected with a runniug-Jine by a fine steel swivel. 

 It contains three hooks, the size Nos. 7, 8, or 9, placed at equal dis- 

 tances from each other ; the first near the bottom, where a small plum- 

 met of lead is fixed to sink the line, aud the others each from eighteen 

 inches to two feet apart. The hooks are so contrived by swivels as to 

 revolve round the line, and thereby give play to the live minnows with 

 which they are to be baited. 



FLOATS. 



Much care and judgment are required in adapting your float to the 

 various streams or waters in which you angle. A deep and rapid river 

 will require a float that will carry from sixteen to twenty of No. 4 shot. 

 If the stream be deep and the current gentle, a float carrying one-half 

 that number of shot will be sufficiently heavy, and when the water is 

 perfectly still, a very light quill-float, carrying two of No. 6 shot, should 

 be used ; and I may remark here, that the smaller your float, the fewer 



