200 



Bottom Fishing for Labeo. 



CHAP. XIII. 



now say 150 yards would be better. The tussa silk line recommended 

 being only one-thirty-second part of an inch in diameter it does 



not take a large winch to hold it. 

 Say 3!- inches in diameter. 



For this style of fishing I cannot 

 improve on the line or the dressing 

 there given. I can only add that the 

 varnish is not everlasting, and that 

 when it is worn out the tussa silk line 

 will recur to thoughts of untwisting. 

 It is a simple matter to re-waterproof 

 it. If you use a heavier line it will 

 weight your float, and you will lose 

 sensitiveness. Still, these lines are 

 not suitable to spin with, as they 

 kink too much. 



With fish running large, and 

 the line always necessarily so 

 fine that there can never be 

 much margin of strength to 

 spare, one is particularly jealous 

 of any weakening, however slight 

 and gradual, and the knot by 

 which the detective float (" Tank 

 Angling," pp. 26, 27) is fixed in 

 position having perhaps a slight 

 tendency in that direction, it is a 

 question whether the marginally 

 illustrated adaptation of the Not- 

 tingham plan is any advantage. 



The stop is a bit of a match with the edges rounded off, the knot a 

 double hitch. As I had left India before I thought of it I have not 



