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twists into snarls a defect which its advocates say 

 is not present when the material is used as a winch line. 

 Wire lines have reduced the lead used for seabottom- 

 fishing to a minimum. Thus the writer, off the 

 Goodwins, last winter, one day fished the wire line with 

 1 Joz. of lead, keeping the bottom with ease, while a 

 friend with a hemp line of fine twisted snooding was 

 using 12oz., and the boatman a hand-line with a l|lb. 

 lead. Of course, as has been said, the proper use of 

 such lines necessitates, or, at least, is facilitated by, a 



Fig. 20. The B.s A. Sea Reel, 



Fig 21. The Nemo Sea Reel 

 (Author's Pattern). 



large pulley end-block for the wire to travel over, and it 

 is as well for the ring next the rod to be replaced by 

 another roller, as the line, travelling off the rod on to the 

 big-drummed winches now used for wire line, is apt to 

 cut against any form of rod ring. Most anglers, indeed, 

 prefer that the rings should be all replaced by rollers, and 

 a well-built rod of this kind, the " Welldone," is now on 

 the market (Fig. 18). One point of caution must be 

 given while speaking of the wire winch-lines, namely, 

 the importance of having a pliable rod, for the amount 

 of stretch in the wire line is not at all to be compared 

 with that of silk or even hemp ; hence the full jerk of 



