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shining sardine is fastened on the hook ; the line 

 twenty feet from the hook is looped for a few 

 inches and held in place by a thread upon which is 

 hung a pipe sinker, that is, a sinker two or three 

 inches long, slender and perforated ; the loop and 

 thread should be very little longer than the sinker. 

 The philosophy of this is apparent when the 

 strike comes, as the full force will come upon the 

 thread, which, when it breaks, liberates the sinker, 

 giving the angler the fish alone to play without 

 the leaden annoyance. Mr. Whitney has made 

 an improvement on this device, often used in sea- 

 angling, which is as follows, and which I take the 

 liberty of copying from his valuable article in 

 the Sunset Magazine: 



" I have lately adopted a better method of at- 

 taching and liberating the sinker, by having the 

 four-ounce lead round in tapering form with a 

 small ring soldered in one end; up the line six 

 feet from the hook and part of it I tie in two 

 swivels nine inches apart I then tie a short 

 piece of weak cotton twine to the bottom ring of 

 the upper swivel and to the upper ring of the 

 swivel below, having threaded the cotton twine 

 through the ring of the sinker ; shorten the cotton 

 twine to four inches in length between the two 



