MODERN SEA FISHING 



hook ; that is important. Round rocky points where the tide 

 sets strongly float tackle can be cast out, and the line being 

 used on a reel, allowed to run out with the current. It will 

 probably be brought round into the eddy on one side of the 

 rocks, working almost to the feet of the angler. 



A handy float, named after the ' Fishing Gazette,' is shown in 

 the illustration. It is as useful in salt as in fresh water, and is 

 most easily put on or taken off the line, which has only to be 

 passed through the slot in the side of 

 the float and pegged in the centre. 



If the water is deep, it may be asked 

 how float tackle can be used? By a 

 clever little contrivance, known as the 

 Slider float, which is explained on p. 253, 

 almost any depth, within reason, can be 

 fished. I have also illustrated on pp. 239 

 to 245 the various forms of paternoster 

 tackle. Generally speaking, for shore 

 fishing there is nothing better than the 

 paternoster illustrated on p. 239, and 

 made of salmon gut or twisted gut with 

 two hooks on single gut placed eighteen 

 FLOAT inches apart, the lower one six inches or 



less above the lead. The hook links 

 may be about seven inches in length, the lower one double 

 that length if there are flat fish about. 



When fishing under the point of the rod for codling or 

 whiting, it is a capital plan to fix a pipe lead on the end of the 

 line, and below it a yard of gut on which are two hooks (eighteen 

 inches apart) baited with mussels, lugworms, or pilchards, &c. 

 The depth must be ascertained with considerable care, and 

 just so much line unreeled that the end hook is checked close 

 to the top of the seaweed. I have caught many codling with 



