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I have used about two inch pieces of fowls guts put on 

 'my hooks, same way as described with pieces of Lam- 

 preys, Eels will certainly take this bait in ponds, but 

 I never tried it in rivers. 



How and where to lay Eel Lines. 



Choose those parts of rivers or waters where the baited 

 hook is not likely to be buried in the mud or entangled 

 in heavy and strong beds of weeds, and if the lines were 

 fastened to bank runners instead of peg sticks, the angler 

 would sustain much less loss of lines, hooks and Eels, as 

 the line gives way gradually from the runner, and in con- 

 sequence seldom gets twisted or checks a fish when he is 

 taking the bait. Though Eels generally lay, during the 

 day, in holes or in the mud, yet when they run and are 

 on the feed at night, they come to the clean scowers, and 

 on the sandy or gravelly part of the stream, near beds of 

 weeds, chalk stones, large lumps of earth that has broke 

 from the banks, &c in such parts lay your lines. Some 

 anglers will take the trouble to clear a sufficient space in 

 the middle of a large bed of weeds to lay lines in, and 

 they are generally well paid for their trouble; and those 

 who lay twenty hooks baited, and each hook fastened to 

 a single line, will take more Eels than those who lay 

 twice the number of baited hooks, fastened to a chain line. 

 Note. When chain lines are laid there is no occasion for 

 bullets on the hook links, because the bricks or turfs keep 

 : them in their places, which is on the bottom o'r ground. 



