ROD-FISHING FOR POLLACK FROM SHORE. 



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piece of Long-Nose i^ inch long or a bit of parchment is con- 

 sidered an additional attraction. 



Rod-fishing with a Light Line. Off a pier-head, when 

 there is a very little or no tide, or in a moderate tide from a 

 boat, very good fishing may be had with a light line, with no 

 sinker whatever, a collar or bottom of the best Salmon gut, 



5 or 6 feet long, being attached to the line. If the water be 

 sufficiently deep, let out about 15 yards of line, use no float, 

 and bait with Rag- Worms ; you will chiefly take Pollack, 

 Bream, and Horse-Mackerel. 



The Pater-Noster Line (fig. 34). This kind of line is pre- 

 ferable in fishing off piers &c. 

 in quiet water and gentle eddies, 

 inside a harbour's mouth, or 

 other favourable situation, and 

 enables you to take a greater 

 variety of fish than the other. 

 To fit up this tackle, take 6 feet 

 of double twisted gut and a pipe- 

 lead half an ounce in weight, and 

 having passed through it a piece 

 of double hemp snooding, make 

 a knot below, and you will then 

 have a bow in the top, to which 

 loop on the gut; then take a hook 

 tied to 9 inches of single gut, 

 with a bow at the other end, and 

 fasten it by a sliding loop to the 

 hemp, and at three or four of 

 each of the knots above, place 

 a hook tied to not more than 



6 inches of gut ; they will now 

 keep clear of each other and 

 stand out from the line, as shown 

 in fig. 34, and you can bait 

 with Rag- Worms as before. 



Pater-Noster. 



FIG. 34. 



Pipe-lead and trace 

 for Rod-fishing. 



For open sea-fishing and at 

 the mouths of extensive and deep arms of the sea, stout gimp 



