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without very good management. It requires at least an hour's soakiog 

 before sufficiently elastic for use. Gut is more transparent, not so 

 thick, and otherwise preferable. 



The HORSE-HAIR KUNNING LINE is now manufactured of every length, 

 with the requisite taper, and being without silk, is obtained at an 

 easy expense. By means of spinning instead of platting, it is made 

 uniform, and without knots ; and by recent improvement, is perfectly 

 free from projecting ends. As it preserves its firmness and elasticity 

 better in the water than silk, which, after being soaked, is apt to get 

 heavy, it is thrown with more steadiness and precision. But it is not 

 pliant enough to pass the reel or the rod-rings so pleasantly as the spun 

 silk and hair. 



PLATTED SILK LINES WITHOUT HAIR are often used as running lines 

 by bottom fishers. They are manufactured of every colour, and being 

 durable, flexible, and very tough, are well calculated for running lines 

 in trolling, minnow-spinning, barbel, and carp fishing, &c. ; in which 

 cases, 20 or 30 yards of this line being on the reel, one end of the gut 

 line is attached to it. But however sufficient for bottom fishing, the 

 silk plat is wholly unfit for fly-lines from its weight and great absorption 

 of water ; but when mixed with hair, it is very good. 



THE PREPARED EIGHT PLAT SILK LINE, called " patent," is a new 

 manufactured running line, which bids fair to supersede the platted silk 

 line heretofore in use for trolling. It is perfectly round and firm, 

 much more so even than the silk and hair line, and forms excellent 

 salmon fly lines. It has the advantage, when well made, of neither 

 kinking nor ravelling, and is, therefore, well calculated for trolling and 

 minnow-spinning. It is sold at about 3d. a yard, and the small, as of 

 more difficult manufacture, as well as the extra stout, at 4d. 



The compound called INDIA-RUBBER LINE, which is made of platted 

 silk, prepared with caoutchouc, and not liable to clink, is perhaps the 

 best and strongest which can be used for a rod-line, especially for trolling. 



THE DERBY SILK LINE, which is used chiefly for common purposes, is 

 the cheapest, being sold at from Is. to Is. 6d. for lengths of forty yards. 

 It is chiefly in use as boys' lines. 



WATER CORD is used for eels, trout, pearch, and" other night-roving 

 fish ; and as the largest fish are usually on the feed at night, the 

 materials of which such lines are made must be proportionably strong, 

 particularly for eels, whose powerful struggles require great strength. 

 Platted hemp (which does not kink, and may be had waterproofed), is 

 preferable, as water cord is very apt to kink or tangle. 



THE PATERNOSTER LINE, for pearch-fishing, is made of strong gut or 

 gimp, on which are suspended at intervals of eighteen or twenty-four 

 inches, three or more hooks ; the whole connected with the reel line by 

 a fine steel swivel. 



THE CHAIN LINE is also a night line, and must be of still stronger 

 manufacture, requiring not less than from 1 to 20 yards of strong 

 water cord, or platted hemp, having pendant from it, at every two or 

 three yards, half a yard of platted line, whipcord, or gimp, with proper 

 single eel-hooks. 



General Observations on Lines. Lines should be dried well before 



