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end being sharpened so that it can cut out the hook if need 

 be, and also a gag which is of no small service where a 

 conger has to be dealt with, but which at the moment is busy 

 with a fish of some new species. This gag an opener rather 

 than a closure if reversed, is serviceable as callipers for gauging 

 the dimensions of specimen fish. The instrument, excepting 

 the case, was at first made of steel and tinned. It rusted so 

 quickly as to be unfit for sea or, indeed, freshwater fishing. I 



KNOBSTICK OR 

 ' PRIEST ' 



have now prevailed upon the makers, Warner & Sons (who 

 shared the error so common among tackle manufacturers that 

 tinning was a preventive of rust), to make the ' Priest ' from 

 top to toe of brass. I had one of the first made for me electro- 

 coppered, and it answered admirably. 



Next to fly fishing, the highest form of saltwater angling 

 from rocks and piers is undoubtedly spinning for bass and pol- 

 lack. The tackle is almost identical with that which we should 



