DAYS STOLEN FOR SPORT 97 



We hastened to commence our fishing ; not be- 

 cause we feared the weather ; the duck shooters 

 and their time of coming were in our mind. In 

 spite of protests I helped to start my friend as he 

 was unfamiliar with my wire arrangement that I 

 think deceives the pike as readily as fine blue gut 

 and, at the same time, frees the user from all fear 

 of its being affected by the sharpest teeth. 



The materials and method of putting together for 

 the snap I use is so simple and the carrying space 

 needed so small that I think you may like to try it ; 

 so I will tell you of it here, and, that you may more 

 readily understand, I have got my son to take a 

 photograph of it. 



I take with me a dozen double hooks and a 

 dozen treble, all with eyes. The double hooks have 

 a piece of wire attached, one and a quarter inches 

 long, including the loop that ends it which should 

 be just of sufficient size to slip over the eye of the 

 treble hook, from the eye of which a piece of wire 

 comes to the sinker, eighteen inches, and then a 

 four-feet length from the sinker to the swivel to 

 which the line is to be attached. Do not be afraid 

 for the strength of this arrangement, as the wire has 

 proved strong enough for me to hold and kill hun- 

 dreds of large spring salmon without ever breaking. 

 I have broken rods and broken lines but never 

 once my wire. 



There are some who have a strong preference 

 for a huge, fat and gaudily painted float, and who 

 delight in watching the bobs and little waves it 

 makes as the bait tugs at it for freedom, but only 

 a moment's thought is needed to lead one to pre- 

 fer the longer and more slender shapes that answer 





