232 MODERN SEA FISHING 



Angling Society with the assistance of Mr. Hemens, of the New 

 North Road. With it leads up to 2 Ibs. can be easily worked. 

 I have even used a 3|-lb. lead with its assistance without much 

 difficulty. It is made in two pieces, and is by no means so stiff 



SHORT SKA ROD FOR BOAT WORK. 



as tackle-makers generally think it necessary to make sea rods. 

 It measures only about seven feet, and I may say here that 

 eleven feet is the outside length of a rod for boat work when 

 ground tackle is used. Owing to the great strain which it has 

 to bear, it is fitted at the end and next the reel with a roller 



BLOCK FOR F.ND OF BOAT ROD (ACTUAL SIZt 



apparatus over which the line passes. There are two good 

 arrangements for the end of the rod : one is simply a little 

 block fixed on with wire; the other a brass arrangement in- 

 vented and made by Mr. Jones, of Scarborough, and sufficiently 

 explained by the illustrations. The Jones apparatus is rather 



