34 APPARATUS. 



wall which are used for the tholes, it being the 

 most convenient position when coiling up the 

 spiller after it has been dried. 



The ray spiller is just the same, only differing 

 in the size and strength of the hooks and their in- 

 creased number ; the bait generally used is pieces 

 of the squid, launee, or the pilchard, split in half 

 and then cut into smaller pieces. In this fishing 

 you must set the spiller just before sunset, and 

 haul it again in three or four hours. 



THE BULTER, OR BOLTER, FOR 

 CONGER, LING, RAY, &c. 



The bulter is just the same in principle as the 

 spiller, only it is made on a much larger scale ; the 

 back is infinitely stronger, the hooks are larger, 

 and the line near them guarded with brass wire 

 some distance above the hook, and, from the ne- 

 cessity of shooting it in very deep water off at sea, 

 is anchored by a particular kind of creeper (see 

 Plate IV, No. 5), and the boat, which is usually 



