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cement, painted various colours sometimes yellow, sometimes 

 yellow and red, or yellow and white. Mr. Farlow showed me 

 a quantity which he had specially prepared for a very suc- 

 cessful fisherman, in which the plaster was coloured black and 

 the rubber tail had been apparently stained with ink. 



ORDINARY TIN SPINNER 

 FOR SEA FISHING 



BELGIAN GRUB 



One of the most deadly of all the sea baits which have 

 ever been invented is known as the rubber sand-eel, though 

 I am quite convinced that the fish take it for either a small 

 conger or a large worm of some kind, for it in no way re- 

 sembles a sand-eel. It is cut out of a piece of indiarubber 

 tubing and placed on a hook with a twisted shank, which 



