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lead, invented by Mr. F. T. Williams, which can be placed on 

 any part of the line without untying any knots, is shown in the 

 illustration. There is an inner slotted tube which is turned 

 after the line has been placed through both slots. 



For fish which are shy and can be depended upon to pick 

 up a bait from the bottom, there is a great advantage in a 

 tackle which lies almost hidden amid sand and pebbles, at 

 least that portion of it near the bait. With the ordinary pater- 

 noster, where the hook links are short, the fish has an oppor- 

 tunity of inspecting the gut line rising up straight from it at 

 an angle to the bottom ; but where either the leger is used or 



the lowest link of the 

 paternoster is pro- 

 longed, as I have ex- 

 plained, the gut near 

 the bait is practically 

 invisible to the fish 

 and not noticeable as 



WILLIAMS'S LEGER LEAD ' lt HeS On the Sand ' 



People who do 



not care to exercise any skill or take much trouble about sea 

 fishing, sometimes use an apparatus which has various names in 

 different localities. Mr. Wilcocks calls it an outhaul bulter 

 a bulter is the same gear as a trot or spiller. The form of the 

 thing is very clearly shown by the illustrations (pp. 2 18 and 219). 

 A heavy anchor or stone is placed at low-water mark 

 during spring tides, or it may be taken somewhat farther out to 

 sea by means of a boat and dropped overboard. It will be 

 noticed that attached to it is a block. Sometimes a ring is 

 used instead of the block. Through the ring or block an end- 

 less line passes, endless inasmuch as the two ends are joined 

 together. A number of snoodings, at least eighteen inches or 

 two feet in length, are placed so far apart that they will not 



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