9^ OBSERVATIONS 



It may not be improper to observe that 

 the term " running line" is applied to a line 

 which may he lengthened or shortened at 

 pleasure, by means of a reel on the rod, and 

 not to the mode of fishing without a float, 

 suffering the bait to be carried with the 

 stream, which may be done with a common 

 line no longer than the rod, and which is 

 properly termed faking by hand. 



FLOATS. 



Cork floats are used for pike, barbel, 

 chub, trout, perch, eels, ruff, and flounders, 

 and quill floats for bream, roach, dace, rud, 

 gudgeons, and bleak. Cork floats are ne- 

 cefsary in deep water, where more lead is 

 required to sink the bait than a quill float 

 would bear, and are made thus : Take a 

 cork firm and free from flaws, and with a 

 small red hot iron bore a hole lengthways 

 through the centre, with a sharp knife cut it 

 acrofs the grain about two -thirds of the 

 length, tapering to the end where the hole 

 is bored, and the remaining third rounded 



