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them ; taking care that the hooks stood back to back ; 

 all pointing outwards. In this manner I took the jacks 

 cither at the snap, or otherwise ; just as I judged proper : 

 and caught some very respectable fishes. 



I found it necessary, in some waters, to have a piece 

 of thin sheet-lead carried once or twice round my gimps 

 at a few inches above the worms, in order to give them 

 good play. I also caught one very fine perch in this 

 manner. 



The pater-noster, or many hooks on one line, is a very 

 common apparatus among the country people -, who pull 

 out the fishes they hook without any mercy, sometimes 

 lifiing large jacks of ten or twelve pounds, clear over 

 their heads. 



The crown-net, as it is called, is a basket about three 

 feet in diameter, which is thrown by those who frequent 

 the fens in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, into the 

 shallows ; where numbers of jacks generally lay. The 

 basket 1ms a round hole at the top, through which the 

 fisherman puts in a stick, on feeling which the jack will 

 instantly display himself. He is taken out with a short 

 gftff\ or a harpoon, or with a small net. 



This kind of net, or rather basket, is in use in various 

 parts of the world, where, during the inundations, such 

 fishes as get into shallow water, being quickly perceived, 

 are pursued, and the inverted basket is thrown over 

 them. 



I can easily believe that much amusement arises from, 

 what is termed (by a gentleman who wrote a treatise on 

 angling) Jluxlng >, that is, driving a goose or a duck into 

 water where there are jacks, with a bait tied to one of 

 the bird's legs. No doubt but the contest must be plea- 

 K 5 sant : 



