JANUARY 37 



weed patches, it contains good pike ; for them the 

 methods of capture employed must be far different from 

 those in vogue on the Broads. 



In these waters pre-eminently the paternoster, the 

 ledger, and heavy-leaded spinning tackle are most 

 suitable, each in its own stretch of water. 



For paternostering, the following tackle has been 

 found most successful by the author: A light lift, rod 

 with a 2ft. whalebone and greenheart top, the butt 

 and middle pieces being made of whole-cane ; the running 

 line, 100 yards of dressed or undressed silk, should be 

 upon a large-drum Nottingham winch, with the usual line- 

 guard. The paternoster should be of single salmon-gut 

 about 6ft. long, with a swivel fastened to the end, and 

 another 14in. piece of light gut looped on to the same 

 eye of the swivel at the lower end, to which loop the 

 lead can be attached in the usual way. This will break 

 if the lead gets entangled. If this swivel is of the 

 buckle-swivel type, so much the better ; it should, when 

 rigged, stand at right angles to the main paternoster. 

 To the buckle-swivel one attaches before fishing a single 

 hook of square bend, about No. 11 new scale, mounted 

 on either gimp or, better, three strands of lake-trout gut 

 lightly plaited or twisted. This gut link goes between 

 the pike's teeth and is not often entirely cut through, 

 though one or two strands may be severed. The lead 

 used should be from to f of an ounce according to the 

 size of the bait. 



The paternoster should be used in the river pools, in 

 the slow, oily, deep eddies under the campshedding, and 

 under overhanging banks in the quiet deep reaches. 



A fair-sized bait on this tackle is a mistake, the most 

 killing being four to five inches in length, the single 

 hook being put through both lips, the lower being 

 penetrated first. 



Bait the hook as gently as possible and swing the 

 bait to the desired spot. Shift the bait a foot or two 

 frequently, and work the quiet eddies, especially those 

 parts that are nearly still. When a fish seizes the bait 

 lower the rod-point and give a minute or two ; then 



