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THE SPRING-KROK. 



the point of the rod is depressed and drawn backwards, by 

 which the ring slips at once off the pin, and the line, which 

 is placed in coils at the fisherman's feet, is in consequence 

 set at liberty ; and after sufficient time has elapsed to enable 

 the pike to gorge the bait (the rod being laid aside alto- 

 gether), he is hauled in by the line alone, hand-over-hand, as 

 sailors would say. 



Two men are needful for this mode of fishing one to 

 manage the punt, which is always backed, that the fish may 

 not be disturbed ; the other, who stands in the stern-sheets, 

 the rod : and if both are adepts, great sport is at times to 

 be had. 



FIG. 1. 



FIG. 2. 



THE SPRING-KROK. 



The Spring-krok, or snap-hook, as the accompanying 

 figures show, differs in shape but little from ours. It is 

 used in the same manner as the Slant-krok, but it is in much 

 less favour, owing to the hooks, from the least entanglement 

 in the weeds, being so constantly drawn out of their sheath. 



