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REEL LINES FOR BOTTOM-FISHING. 



A LINE of exceptional lightness, and with a dis- 

 inclination to " kink" when wetted, is essential for 

 the most successful and scientific method of 

 bottom-fishing, known as the " Nottingham style." 

 Long casts have to be made with so light a bait 

 and tackle, that unless the line is almost as fine as 

 gossamer, and runs very easily, it will not pass 

 through the rod-rings without great trouble. It 

 must also be " un-dressed," or it will sink instead of 

 floating, and thus render it impossible to strike a 

 fish effectively at long range. I have in my 

 possession a line made at Nottingham which fulfils 

 admirably all these conditions. It is composed of 

 six or eight of the finest possible strands of silk, 

 plaited somewhat in a square shape ; and in thick- 

 ness does not exceed that of ordinary " Holland 

 thread," one hundred yards weighing exactly three- 

 eighths of an ounce. And yet, fine as it is, it will 

 lift a dead weight of between 6 Ibs. and 7 Ibs., 

 which is double the strain that it is ever likely to 

 be subjected to. 



This line is also the best that can be used on 



