Fio. 97. SOLID 

 'LUMMET. 



LEAD 



"I--, 



TACKLE FOR THE CARP FAMILY, ETC. 



is a piece of soft cork which re- 

 ceives the point of the hook (Pig. 

 79). As carp fishing is sometimes 

 conducted where there is an under- 

 growth of bushes, &c., a very use- 

 ful little tool is figured here (Pig. 

 80), which is placed on the top of 

 the rod, its base being hollow ; 

 there is a loop to which a line is 

 attached. The top of the rod lifts 

 it up to the bough on which the 

 hook may be entangled, and is 



then retracted, leaving the instru- Fio.80. CLEARING HOOK. 

 ment suspended. The instrument may then be drawn away, and the 

 bough or twig cut through. 



TACKLE FOR TENCH. 



Carp and tench go together, because the tackle and baits that 

 one will take the other will almost 

 invariably adopt. The fashion of 

 fishing with a ball of ground bait, 

 out of which the hook projects, 

 baited with gentle or other bait, 

 which has obtained great success 

 in the case of roach, will often 

 answer equally well in the case of 

 tench. I represent it as follows (Fig. 

 81). The hook may be a No. 8 

 Kendal. 



I also observed in the chapter on 

 Tench that I had taken tench with 

 an adaptation of the "bobbing" 

 tackle in use for eels, and there de r 

 scribed. Fig. 82 shows the actual 



"bobbing" apparatus for eels; the adaptation in question is 

 simply a hook substituted for the needle. The method of 

 FOR TENCH, baiting, &c., is described in the chapter on Eels. 



TACKLE FOR BARBEL. 



The hook for this fish need not be longer than a No. 2 Bound 

 bend, or of my own style. The only special tackle beyond that 

 described in the chapter upon the Barbel is the leger. Fig. 83, on 

 following page, is the most approved form, and it may, if not 



FIG. 82. BOBBING NEEDLE. 



