ITS DEFECTS AND REMEDIES. 11 



From not properly considering the sub- 

 ject, some fishermen imagine that kinking 

 is the fault of the running line, or its 

 dressing; and all their attention is conse- 

 quently directed to these points,, which, 

 however important in other respects, have 

 seldom anything whatever to do with the 

 question at issue. The vice lies not in the 

 line but in the trace. No ordinary trolling 

 line, if it be even tolerably well dressed, 

 ought ever to kink with a trace constructed 

 on proper principles. 



In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, 

 kinking is the result solely of a want of 

 sufficient vis inertia in the leads to resist the 

 rotatory motion of the bait, and to compel the 

 swivels to act, or, in other words, through 

 the insufficient resisting power of the leads, the 

 twist, instead of being confined to the trace 

 below them, extends upwards to the running 

 line, and produces kinking; whilst at the 

 same time the leads cannot be materially 



