72 PIPE- LEADS AND MOULDS. 



whilst knotting the line together, nine feet white hair and 

 three feet white snooding with the two lengths of double 

 gut. 



A reel is necessary upon which you will wind your line, and 

 may be either a square of cork of 6 inches to each side, or a frame 

 of like dimensions ; if a frame, it may be made 8 inches by 6, 

 or according to the owner's fancy. Many will say that snood- 

 ing is of itself fine enough, but the majority of fishermen are of 

 a different opinion, unless the fish are very numerous and large ; 

 almost all fishermen at the present time use gut both for Pollack 

 and Bass or Mackerel, fineness of tackle in a proportionate de- 

 gree to size of the fish being quite as necessary as in freshwater 

 fishing. At least four of these lines will be required, and one 

 of the same length without leads ; these latter lines are more 

 frequently made of only two strands of hair, but of the same 

 strength, length of snooding, &c., as the preceding. One of 

 these only should be used with the others, and always over the 

 stern of the boat. In the Channel Islands all these lines are 

 known as ' Flottants,' answering to our term ' Drift Lines,' 

 and their use has received due attention under ' Drift or Tide- 

 way Fishing,' pages 62 and 76. The various leads used as 

 sinkers can be obtained ready made from the makers (see 

 advertisements at end of the volume), but the method of making 

 them is described in case my readers should like to cast them, 

 or be inconveniently situated for procuring them, at home or 

 abroad. 



Pipe-leads and Moulds. To make the Pipe-leads, take two 

 pieces of freestone exactly alike, and of a square form, and 

 fitting two of the surfaces carefully together, separate them and 

 describe a cross upon the surface of one, and mark on the side 

 the position of the four points of the arms ; now place the 

 other piece on it, and with a carpenter's square make also four 

 perpendiculars to the plane of the cross, on the sides of the 

 pieces, which will of course enable you to describe two more 

 crosses on the under and upper surfaces of the portion of free- 

 stone. Separate the pieces, and hollow out half the proposed 

 dimensions from each surface, exactly in the centre on the line 

 of the cross, and on the transverse line of the cross on one side 



