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lead ; in fact, a paternoster, in which the hooks are kept 

 away from the main line by pieces of wire. Mr. Wilcocks' 

 method — the best with which I am acquainted — of making 

 this tackle is to take four turns at one end of each of the 

 brass-wire chopsticks, and so make a spiral coil, through which 

 the main line can be passed. A. knot has to be placed above 

 and below each chopstick, and the portion of the line where 

 they work has to be served with waxed thread, to keep them 

 from wearing the line. To the end of the wires are attached 

 the gut lengths and hooks. The chopsticks should be 2ft. 

 apart, and the gut or snooding to the hooks as long as may 

 be without fouling. The advantage of this tackle is three 

 different depths being fished at one time. 



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Fig. 45. How to take Marks. 



In using hand-lines, they should always be held in the hand, 

 and not tied to the boat seat and allowed to fish themselves. 

 Immediately a bite is felt a jerk should be given, and the 

 tackle hauled up, hand over hand, as quickly as possible, for 

 fish which are not played on a rod often get off the hook. 

 The fisherman who can haul the fastest takes the most fish. 

 Success depends most of all on the boat being at the right 

 spot, and for this the boatman is, of course, responsible 

 He finds his position by marks on the coast ; and people who 



