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lowest level. These should be placed obliquely across 

 the stream, that when the cord with your lines may be 

 stretched from one stake to the other, the main channel 

 may be intercepted, and the fishes be compelled to notice 

 the baits. In this way twenty or thirty hooks may be 

 -set 3 or more, if the space admits. 



If the water is of unequal depths, and that the fishes 

 take such a course in general, as not to admit of the 

 preceding modes, a boat will be necessary j not only for 

 laying your cord properly, but it to get it up hi the 

 morning. 



Going on this plan, your boat should be poled up to 

 the higher part of the stream, where you mean your 

 highest line to lay : then having tied bricks, or other 

 weights, to the ends of your cord (and if it be long, at 

 intermediate parts also), drop one of the end bricks into 

 the water, and lower out your card with the bait lines 

 affixed thereto at proper distances, say two feet asunder ; 

 taking care they are not entangled, and that they go clear 

 of each other. 



If the current is not very strong, your first brick will 

 serve you in some measure as an anchor, and enable you to 

 keep your cord sufficiently tight, as the boat goes down 

 the stream. In this way, if you do not stint yourself 

 for space, any number of hooks may be set. 



In setting your line, after it has all the baited hooks 

 attached, throw each hook over the boat's edge, in re- 

 gular succession, so as to hang a few inches out 3 the 

 cord will thus be slack, in the manner of a festoon, all 

 along the inside of the boat's edge j and unless some mis- 

 management should take place, will run oft' freely, taking 

 the hooks in a regular manner. 



Note down the spot where your uppermost brick was 



dropped,, 



