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ceive a 3-foot piece of stout horse-hair line, having a pipe-lead 

 at the end half an ounce in weight, and 3 feet of hemp snood- 

 ing with a strong Mackerel or Pollack hook. A knot or stop 

 must be made on each side of the bung cork, leaving sufficient 

 play for it to revolve freely on the line ; to ensure this be care- 

 ful to bore the hole both large and smooth with a hot wire. 



At every fourth cork make fast a piece of line three or four 

 fathoms in length, with a large stone to hinder the main line 

 rising too high off the bottom, as well as to keep it from form- 

 ing too much of a bow by the stream of tide, and moor the line 

 at the ends with two heavy stones with buoy lines. Bait with 

 living or dead Sand-Eels, two or three large Rag- Worms, Lugs, 



FIG. 35. Floating Trot. 



strips of Cuttle or Squid, or any bright fish, and shoot it on or 

 near to rocky ground just before sunset, and raise it in the 

 morning. 



You will take large Pollack, Coal-fish, Bass, Bream, and 

 Gar-fish, but for the last named use smaller hooks. 



A line of thirty fathoms will be found a useful length. 



At the commencement of the season in March, should fish 

 be scarce, this gear wiL be found very effective, but may be 

 used at any time. In common with other trots or bulters, this 

 should be shot across the stream of tide, if not too strong. It 

 may be used either on the surface, or at midwater, and should 



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