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and the line tight, the two loops will be mutually in- 

 terlap'd. 



Where worms are used as baits, they should be 

 threaded on the double hook, by allotting one for the head 

 and the other for the tail of the lob : the centre part 

 should be fastened up to the top of the shanks, by means 

 of a piece of worsted. Chicken's guts answer for this 

 kind of baiting admirably, and take many line eels. 



Where the banks of a river are much frequented, and 

 you are subject to having your lines taken up by the petty 

 pilferers that every where abound, and who delight in 

 every kind of depredation by which one of their betters 

 may suffer, you must be careful, and lay your lines so as 

 not to be seen ; therefore in such places tie the cord 

 to the root of a tree, under water, or to bunches of grass, 

 or to the stalks of large weeds, &c. though nothing is 

 more secret or more substantial than the forked peg, if 

 properly managed : it were best, however, to get up 

 " early, lest some trespasser, or passer by, should sets 

 the fish struggling, and save you the trouble of taking it 

 home. See /%. 7, -Plate III. 



In narrow waters, where you can jump across, or 

 where you can easily get to either bank, maay short 

 lines being tied to one strong cord, of which the ends 

 are affixed to pegs In the banks respectively, answer 

 very well. The lines should be lowered gently into the 

 water, and the cord should be so far slackened as to 

 allow the. baits to lay fairly on the bottom. 



This serves to entice fishes, which cannot pass up and 

 down without noticing some of your baits. 



Where streams are broad and shallow, but die bottom 



firm, no mode is better than that of driving two stakes 



in, so as to be concealed even when the water is at its 



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