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letting the stone or anchor out by degrees until it 

 reaches the ground ; the boat should then be slowly 

 rowed in the direction you wish the spiller to lie in, 

 which you must gently allow to pass overboard, 

 keeping it at the same time moderately tight, and, 

 when quite payed out, you should take care to 

 have it quite straight by keeping a light strain on 

 it until you have taken out the waste coils, then 

 over with the other stone and buoy, and let it 

 remain for four or five hours, when you can pull 

 it in in the same manner as you payed it out, and 

 very probably nearly every other hook will have a 

 fish of some kind or other on it. Many baskets- 

 ful may be seen as the results of a day's fishing 

 of this kind, and generally they are the most deli- 

 cate of their several kinds, as those only which 

 are on the feed are caught, and not so indiscrimi- 

 nately as they are with the trawl. The spiller, 

 when done with, is stowed away very neatly ; the 

 back, having been detached from the stones, is 

 coiled on a piece of wood with a slit cut in it to 

 receive the line, and the hooks go on a piece of 

 wood on the opposite side, made by another small 

 slit in the wood ; the lower part of the frame is 

 cut so as to go into one of the holes in the gun- 



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