FLOAT AND TRACE. 



hole entirely through it. Having run your 

 line through it, push in a small plug, and only 

 allow about a quarter of an inch (or even 

 less) to appear above the float. By this con- 

 trivance the float is made 

 considerably shorter than the 

 old-fashioned ones, which is 

 of some consequence in live- 

 baiting; because when a Jack 

 has taken the bait and turns 

 among weeds to pouch it, a 

 long float often gets entangled 

 therein, and checks or alarms 

 the Jack, when he drops the 

 bait instead of pouching it. 

 A float sufficiently large to 

 carry a lead of the size given 

 on the annexed trace, and a 

 bait of about six inches in 

 length, will be found, generally 

 speaking, the most useful. 



If fishing weedy water, it 

 will be found a good plan to 

 _. fix on the running-line, above 



t\J( V I the float, two or three small 

 V_X round cork balls about half 

 an inch in diameter : these 

 are termed "pilot-floats," and are very useful 

 for keeping the line from sinking in the weeds : 

 they should be fixed two or three feet apart. 



The next thing required is the Trace, which 

 is fastened to the line with a knot like the one 



