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being used, not only without any practical inoonvenience, but 

 with distinct advantage. 



The lead should be attached by a link of stout gut — of the 

 same thickness, in fact, as the rest of the flight — and lapped on 

 to the lip-hook, inside. 



The trace I use with this (or any other) flight for lake 

 trolling, consists of 8 or 9 feet of picked gut, say, an ordinary 

 3-yard casting line— salmon or trout gut, according to the 

 size of the fish expected — with two sets of the smallest sized 

 ' double swivels,' knotted (not lapped) ' into the gut at equal 

 intervals, and a lead-wire ' swivel-compeller ' close above the 

 upper set, to prevent risk of the line ' kinking.' 



LEAD-WIRE SWIVEL-COMPELLER. 



The lead-wire for the present purpose should be a size or 

 two thicker than that shown in the cut. To twist it on, lay a 

 pin along the gut at the desired point, and twist the lead-wire 

 round both pin and trace ; then draw out the pin, and with 

 the finger and thumb tighten up the coils of the wire until 

 they hold firmly to the gut. The swivel-compeller is very in- 

 conspicuous, and thoroughly efificient. If still more lead is 

 required to sink the bait, it can be most conveniently added by 

 running a pipe-shaped lead on to the reel-line, just above its 

 junction with the trace, and therefore well away from the bait, 

 o^ by twisting some more heavy lead-wire round the trace on 

 the next link above the s^vivel-compeller. In the former case 

 a knot should be tied in the reel-line over the lead to prevent 

 its slipping up the line. For merely temporary purposes I 



1 Lapping is a disfiguring un-necessity. The simplest, neatest, and 

 strongest junction between the gut and the swivels is to pass the gut, 

 thoroughly well soiked, of course, through the swivel-loop, and then, with the 

 end, make a double slip knot round the main trace (see second fig., p. 12), 

 and draw it tight. 



