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spinner is thus enabled to get a clear yard 

 of gut between the bait and the lead, an 

 advantage which cannot be overrated in fine 

 water or bright weather, when the fish can 

 see every knot in the line. 



GIMP. 



Secondly as to Gimp : There are many 

 fishermen who appear to think that they can 

 never get their gimp thick enough or strong 

 enough. To these persons anything short of 

 a miniature cart-rope is an abomination. 

 Fine-fishing their soul abhors gut traces 

 they cannot away with ! I should be 

 sorry to attempt by the force of logic, or 

 indeed any other known force, the hopeless 

 task of convincing these fossil-anglers that a 

 gimp which is powerful enough to lift a dead 

 weight of fifty pounds sheer into the air, is 

 also powerful enough to hold a fish a third 

 of the same weight when alive and supported 



