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MODERN SEA FISHING 



is desirable. Treble gut, of course, varies in thickness ; it 

 may consist of three thicknesses of fine gut or three thick- 

 nesses of stout gut. A very 

 fine paternoster, one which 

 many people have con- 

 sidered to be good for cod 

 fishing, is made by taking 

 two stout salmon casts 

 and lightly twisting them 

 together, swivels being in- 

 serted at intervals to carry 

 the hook links, which may 

 be of twisted gut or gimp 

 slightly less strong than the 

 main length. I fished with 

 one and the same single 

 gut paternoster for three 

 years in succession, and 

 even then did not lose it, 

 but threw it away as it had 

 become very much frayed, 

 though still strong. Cer- 

 tainly salt water does not 

 rot gut. 



The WHITING. Im- 

 portant members of the 

 Gadidce. or Cod family are 

 the pollack and the coal- 



DEEP SEA 



INSHORE 



NORTH SEA HOOKS AND SNOODS 

 (ACTUAL SIZE) USED ON LONG 

 LINES 



fish, but these I have dealt 

 with in a previous chapter. 



Of a kin, and next in importance, at any rate to the sports- 

 man, is the whiting (Gadus merlangus}. To taste a whiting at 

 its best one must be a sea angler, for a considerable portion 



