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MODERN SEA FISHING 



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NORWEGIAN GROUND-BAIT CONE 



years ago. He said that 

 the professional fishermen 

 west of the Start very fre- 

 quently placed a stone in 

 the foot of an old stock- 

 ing and half filled the leg 

 with the guts of pilchard 

 or other oily fish, lowering 

 the arrangement to six feet 

 from the ground. The 

 globules of oil which oozed 

 through the stocking were 

 believed to be exceedingly 

 attractive. 



A reader of a previous 

 book of mine on sea 

 fishing, Mr. Arthur 

 Mountain, of Grims- 

 by, very kindly sent 

 me a description of 

 an apparatus used by 

 the Norwegian fisher- 



