LEADS. 93 



sliding or " traveller" floats to fish waters thirty or 

 even fifty feet in depth. These floats are manu- 

 factured by Messrs. Allcock and Co., Redditch. I 

 have taken the following extract from the Fishing 

 Gazette: " Last week a well-known contributor to 

 the Fishing Gazette was using one of the new 

 ' Jardine Duplex Pike-floats' in an old flooded 

 stone-quarry, and successfully fishing by its means 

 water 40 ft. deep." (See illustrations of the two 

 kinds, bamboo and cork and all cork.) 



Of leads, to place on the trace to ballast the 

 float, various patterns are sold in the tackle-shops. 

 Among the most useful for livebait fishing are 

 those which are detachable, so that they can be 

 placed on the trace near to, or if preferred, farther 

 away from the bait. The leads which more than 

 any others embody this advantage are the " Archer " 

 Jardine leads (see p. 60), which are attached or 

 detached by coiling or uncoiling the trace on or off 

 the lead and wire (as shown in the illustration). 

 They are made in various sizes and are in universal 

 request. Another useful lead, which is a fixture on 

 the end of the trace, but longer or shorter gimps to 

 the snap-hooks may be used, is my " perfected barrel 

 lead " ; it has been for years a favourite lead 

 with pike anglers. A brass wire, eyed at the top, 

 runs through the lead. The bottom of it is formed 

 like a flattened loop, into which the loop of the 

 hook gimp is placed and the lead pushed down 

 over the wire. 



The next tackles (and important ones, too) to be 

 considered are livebait snap-tackles. Anglers have 

 their whims and fancies, some of them even now 

 preferring the old and nearly obsolete "saddle- 

 snaps," while others like the " Pennell " and some 



