22 BOTTOM-FISHING. 



HOW TO USE THE CLEARING RING 

 AND DISGORGER. 



WHEN your hook gets fixed to weeds or any 

 thing else, hold your rod in a slanting position, 

 put the ring over it and let it go gradually down 

 to the hook, which it will free ; if not draw the 

 line sideways and break away in this case you 

 seldom lose more than a hook, but without the 

 assistance of the clearing ring the Angler is very 

 likely to lose his line and float as well as hook, 

 or even break his top joint. 



The disgorger although so simple an article, 

 is nevertheless a most useful and necessary one. 

 When a fish has gorged the bait or has the 

 hook fixed in its throat, thrust the forked end 



