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The day-trimmer is made by cutting two deep grooves 

 tn the opposite edges of a bung, or large piece of cork. 

 The end of a long line being fastened to the bung, the 

 line is wound on it, until only a few inches are pendant ; 

 so that the bait may float at any desired depth. The 

 bung, &:c. being thrown into a clear part of a pond, 

 when a fish takes the bait, he will not be impeded ; as 

 the line will run off the revolving bung, which remains 

 as a guide to the fish's locality. Trimmers of this kind 

 are more particularly applicable to jacks and perch. 



I should observe, that, properly speaking, trimmers, 

 70 called from their very rarely allowing any fish that 

 gorges the bait to escape, apply more particularly to the 

 double-hooks made on one wire 5 so that the brass guard 

 may pass through, and form a kind of hinge ; the guards 

 should also have joints in their middles 5 forming by 

 this means two links $ so as to render the tackle more 

 pliant than if all in one length, stiffly fastened on by 

 whipping to the hook. 



Such are more advantageous in some respects, but 

 they are not so good for eels as the plain, straight, 

 guarded trimmer-, which those fish cannot so easily 

 manage to break as they do such as have hinges. 



Persons unacquainted with the vigor and pliancy of 

 the eel, would be apt to think such substantial trimmers, 

 as are sometimes offered for sale, fully adequate to every 

 purpose : but it should be recollected, that eels very 

 often are found to weigh from two to four pounds ; and 

 that their power to curl themselves round and round the 

 line, gives such a hold as enables them to draw back 

 their heads from the point of resistance, with great effect; 

 and eventually to tear the hooks out of their very maws. 



The instances I have seen of their thus twisting tlie 



guards, 



