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depths of the bait according to the time of day and the depth of 

 the water ; for while in the evening these fish may be hooked 

 close to the surface, in the daytime they cannot be caught at 

 all unless the bait is dragged close to the rocks and weeds just 



GEF.N'S LEAD 



NORFOLK LEAD 



in front of their eyes. Many a professional fisherman will say 

 that railing for pollack in the daytime is time wasted ; but those 

 who have learned the secret often capture very nearly as many 

 fish before sunset as afterwards. If I am failing to secure 

 pollack in the daytime, I keep on 

 increasing the weight of lead until I 

 find my hooks catching in the sea- 

 weed. Then I reduce the length of 

 the line by a few yards by simply 

 reeling it up, which will cause the 



bait to swim a foot or two higher, and I feel satisfied that the 

 bait is just clearing the weeds. 



Where the lead is a permanent fixture on the spinning trace, 

 as is often the case with the productions of the tackle shops, 

 this lead-changing is a great nuis- 

 ance. One way of dealing with the ^SSlSSBBfi^ 

 difficulty is to have leads of various 



'FISHING GAZETTE LEAD 



weights fitted at each end with strong 



hooks, such as those shown attached to the Geen lead. An- 

 other method is to use either a ' Fishing Gazette ' lead, which, 

 it will be noted, is mounted on a sort of safety pin, a Norfolk 

 or a curved ' Jardine ' lead. The way they are applied to the 



