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the claws which hang. These precautions are 

 very necessary, as one never knows what obstacles 

 he may meet with in a day's sea fishing. 



Another kind of creeper is made for conger 

 fishing with the bultoe, by casting a heavy conical 

 mass of lead with six or eight pieces of bent brass 

 wire cast into the end ; this form of creeper is 

 used on rocky ground, so that, when the bultoe 

 is pulled in, if it sticks at the bottom a good pull 

 bends the wire and frees it, without in any way 

 injuring it (see Plate IV, No. 5). 



SPILLER STICK OR RACK. 



The frame on which the spiller, when dry, is 

 kept for use is made by cutting a piece about 

 three inches wide from a bit of inch fir plank, 

 and making a slot on one side, into this the back 

 is carefully coiled, the hooks being placed in 

 rotation in a smaller groove cut in the opposite 

 side of the wood ; the whole is about two feet 



