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T)rass lining is desirable as it almost eliminates the chances of a jamb. Those 

 Anglers who have reels of the old pattern with small centre spindle, may get 

 useful work from them, if a few yards of stout blind cord are first wound on the 

 spindle before reeling on the backing Une. The importance of gettinff line back 

 quicldy when the fish rushes towards, mstead of from , the boat when struck, 

 is obvious, especially as one does not know whether or not the hook is fairly 

 home or merely engaged with the hard bony ridge he has in lieu of teeth and 

 gums. 



It is desirable to pay particular attention to the business end of the line. 

 Escheio gut and Gim]), and mount all hooks on fine steel wire, for the Bamin 

 Is an adept at gymnastics and his gyrations are fast and furious in his endea- 

 vours to bottom and, aided by the rocks, rub the annoyance from his jaws ; 

 lie will also bore away head down and repeatedly thrash the trace with his 

 powerful tail. This matter may be considered as of vital importance, for unless 

 a good hook hold is secured, all else is of Httle consequence. Stout " Eyed 

 trebles " are very satisfactory in use and numbers 3 and 4 the most useful sizes. 

 The hook 7mist be stout or it will straighten out in placing an average fish of 

 seven pounds weight. A very useful method of mounting hooks, is to twist 

 a loop in a short length of steel wire, this loop being sufficiently large to pass 

 easily over the eye of a treble and down its shank, the free end of looped wire 

 should be turned twice and secured through the eye of a second treble, so the 

 looped mount should measure over all about one and half inches from top of 

 loop to top of eye, a pair of round nosed pliers is a useful tool for this purpose 

 and also for bending on wire traces to swivels. 



In using hooks so mounted, foi- Bahmin take an unmounted treble we 

 term the Lip hook, pass the loop of mounted treble over the eye of lip hook, 

 the trace is attached to this Hp hook, one barb of which is passed through the 

 nose of live bait, and one barb of mounted hook is inserted in the side of bait 

 between the pectoral and dorsal fins. The Bahmin invariably attacks the head 

 of live bait, if spinning live or dead bait the loop of a second mounted treble 

 may be passed over the first mounted treble and one barb be inserted in the 

 bait, midway between the Ventral and Caudal fins, so as to curve and to make 

 it spin. This tail hook should always be used from August to November, as 

 Begti and Seer are then occasionally present, and as they make a rear attack, 

 the lure should be so guarded. Without diagrams, this description has neces- 

 sarily become somewhat lengthy, but I think the importance of a good hook 

 hold is paramount and the merits of this particular method of mounting 

 is, that it is extremely simple and convenient, moreover, one can depend 



upon it. , I • u TV--II- " 



For traces, I do not think there is any thing better than steel vnve, KiUin 

 wire is very good, and so is the wire from galvanized steel rope, this may be 

 obtamed in all sizes, and a six foot length will provide a number of good traces 

 and hook mounts, besides giving one's servant a httle amusement m untwistmg 

 and separating it. A useful form of trace is about two feet of stout wire bent 

 on to a double swivel at one end, a single swivel at the other, to the smg e 

 swivel attach about four feet or less of fine wire the free end bemg bent on to 

 the eye of the hp hook already described. The We ght or «mker mv^ not be 

 forgotten, as so much depends upon having the bait at the right dep L The 

 Tide Tables given in the daily papers show the great variations in n.e and faU 

 and the strength of stream naturally varies ..th the height of t de. A conven 

 ient type of height is an oblong of 2x ^ inches with holes at tl^^ ^^ °I> ^°[; 

 ners through which a length of line folded to form a six inch loop, one end of the 



weight, and another loop of about an inch at t^^,.^*'^^'^,!"^:! 'f r^^u red 

 is bent through the double swivel and serves for adding ex rawigh^^^^^^ 



the free end 5f casting line ^if^^f^^^^^^J^^ZS'^^^^^^^^ 

 -also serves the purpose of an anti-iauKer wun.u i 



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