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springy ; they do equally well for spinning. The 

 rings are quite half an inch in diameter, and "guard " 

 or " bridge " rings ; any accidental tangle passes 

 easily through them without checking a fish I may be 

 playing. To the end of my running-line is attached 

 by the usual double-hitch and loop four feet of 

 salmon gut stained olive-green, to which is looped 

 1 8 inches, or 24 inches of trout gut, if the water is 

 deep, or has a bottom growth of weeds ; and at the 

 end of all is placed a ^-oz. or f-oz. lead plummet 

 or sinker. The reason for adding the trout gut is 

 this : should you get hitched up to a weed, or to 



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any obstruction, it is the first to break, being the 

 weakest, and you only lose the plummet. 



At the loop connecting the salmon and trout 

 gut attach the paternoster hook, a square-bend 

 No. 10 short shank, bound on 12 inches of No. o 

 or No. i gimp of platinum wire ; any bright metal 

 like brass or white metal glitters, and is therefore 

 objectionable. 



The bait should be a live dace 4^ inches or 

 5 inches long, and failing that, a small roach or a 

 large gudgeon, hooked through both lips, the bottom 

 one first ; they live longer this way than when 



