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been applied to rods, and several attempts have been 

 made to get some strong, light form which could be 

 easily carried and quickly rigged up. The first success- 

 ful form was invented by Mr. Clements in 1897, and 

 consists of a treble arrangement of arms having a lead 

 link suspended below, and a swivel on a traveller horse 

 above, giving a direct pull on either of the lateral arms 

 should a larger fish take the bait. 



This, the writer can say from several years' experience, 

 is an admirable rig for fishing for cod and whiting, and 

 with the lateral arms rigged with long snoods (4ft. 6ft.) 

 is perhaps the best arrangement in existence for sea 

 bream. It, however, possesses one great disadvantage, 

 namely, its want of portability. This has been remedied 

 in a new collapsible boom (Fig. 40) invented by Mr. T. B. 

 Bates, a well-known member of the British Sea Anglers' 

 Society, and a sea rod-fisher of several years' standing, 

 The full description of this rig would probably prove 

 wearisome, but a brief sketch will convey a general idea 

 of the apparatus. The material out of which the boom 

 can be made is either German silver, hardened brass, 

 or, better still, steel wire double-coppered. There are 

 two arms, each terminating in a swivel, and made of an 

 inner and outer piece of wire so that the length of each 

 arm can be regulated at will, so that, when not in use, 

 the apparatus can be reduced to one-half its length fully 

 extended. When rigged up a matter of less than half 

 a minute the boom has quite the spread of the usual 

 Kentish rig as used on fishermen's hand-lines, and when 

 collapsed goes comfortably in the breast-pocket. It will 

 be interesting to note in the future whether this tackle 

 will be as successful as the Kentish rig and hand-line 

 have been in previous years in the capture of bi^ cod ; 

 for it allows what no ledger or paternoster tackle 

 (except that next mentioned) efficiently permits, namely, 

 that the cod to rove about for some distance up- 

 tide with the bait before feeling a check, an advantage 

 the writer is convinced in the capture of these bottom- 

 feeding, slow-moving fish. 



Another form of tackle which has appeared in various 



