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about two feet of fine gut, at the bottom of wliich, a 

 very small hook, about No. Q or 10, should be very 

 neatly affixed. At about six inches above that hook, set 

 on one or more shot, according to the strength and depth 

 of your waters j then at equal distances, say four or five 

 inches, fasten the thinnest, whitest, hog-bristles you can 

 obtain, tying them well on, at their middles, to your gut- 

 line. At each end of every bristle, have a small hook, as 

 at bottom. 



Thus you may have three, five, seven, nine, &c. 

 hooks on your line, none of which will interfere with the 

 others ; the bristle always retaining a certain stiffness, and 

 never so far relaxing as to snarl or twist on your line. 

 With such tackle you may catch minnotvs, loaches, lull" 

 heads, gudgeons, bleaks, &:c. for the supply of your 

 dipping apparatas, and for your night-lines. 



Of fastening the Line to the Rod. 



When a reel is used, you have only to make a fasten- 

 ing to the loop at the top of your line, by means of the 

 line which, coming from the reel through the rings affixed 

 to the rod, goes through an eye made of wire, or of metal, 

 at its top. 



Pass the reel-line through the loop, and tie it with only 

 a single- loop draw-knot. So that by pulling at the end 

 of your reel-line, you disengage your hair-line with the 

 utmost ease. 



But, in case you do not use a reel, pass the loop at 

 the top of your line through the eye a*, the top of your 

 rod, so far as to allow your putting the lower end of youi 

 top-joint through the loop ; then draw the line back again 

 through the eye, and all will be secure and neat. 



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