CHAPTER XIII 

 WITH PATERNOSTER AND LEGER 



Paternostering for pike The tackle and trace for it How to bait 

 and work a paternoster Leger tackle and the best hooks Live 

 bait kettles and store boxes. 



T3ATERNOSTERING for pike is a very deadly method 

 L of using a live bait ; pike of the very largest size 

 have been killed on a paternoster, particularly those that 

 live in deep holes, where the river bottom is very unequal 

 in depth. Working this tackle round the piles and but- 

 tresses of an old bridge, or under old camp-shedding, or in 

 the eddies, corners, and holes of a weir, is delightful work, 

 and when you feel the sullen tugs of a twelve-pounder the 

 pleasure is increased. 



Now paternostering, as I have hinted before, is a method 

 of angling that requires no float. A paternoster can be 

 made from single salmon gut, Hercules wire gimp, or 

 ordinary copper-coloured gimp ; it does not particularly 

 matter which. Some paternosters are made with bone 

 beads, threaded at intervals on the main trace ; the object 

 of these beads being that the bait can work in a circle round 

 and round the trace without kinking all up in a tangle. 

 Others are made with what is called a cross-line swivel, 

 that is, a swivel with a buckle or loop projecting at right 

 angles from the centre of it, these loops being to hank the 

 snap itself into easily. Still others of these paternosters 

 have only a loop made and knotted from the trace itself, 

 projecting at right angles. The main gut or gimp of the 

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