10 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Section C.~ APPARATUS OF SEA AND FRESH-WATER FISH- 

 ING. 



XIII. — Fishing: Lines and Rigged Gear — Continued. 



62. Stone, lead, brass, and composition sinkers for nets, seines, 



and hand lines. 



63. Indian and Eskimo floats carved in wood; glass, cork, and 



wood floats for nets and lines in sea fisheries; wood, 

 cork and quill floats for pond fishing. 



64. Hand- lines rigged for cod fishing on the off-shore and in- 



shore banks and ledges; pollock hand-lines; bluefish 

 trolling lines ; lines for pond fishing ; gear for the cap- 

 ture of catfish, weakfish, and other species; Indian 

 trawl lines made of cedar ; cod, haddock, and halibut 

 trawls in sections and fully rigged with buoys and an- 

 chors ; snares and eel bobs ; Indian fishing lines from 

 Alaska and the Northwest coast. 



XIV. — Fishing rods, and Reels for Lines and Nets. 



65. Plain and split bamboo rods, for salmon, trout, bass, and 



general fishing; ash and hornbeam, and ash and lance- 

 wood rods; combination trolling pole, harpoon-line 

 holder and cane ; and other kinds of rods. 



66. Simple reels for fly-fishing, with and without check, made 



of brass, German silver, rubber, ebonite, and celluloid. 

 Multiplying reels for bass-fishing, with and without 

 check; automatic reels, Kentucky reel, quadruple, mul- 

 tiplying, nickel- plated reel. Spools, winders, trawl- 

 line rollers, line chocks for whale boats, trawl-winch or 

 hurdy-gurdy, &c. 



XV. — Nets and Seines and Materials used in their Man- 

 ufacture. 



67. Twine used in making nets and seines, exhibited by Amer- 



ican Net and Twine Company. Samples of netting, 

 white, tanned and tarred, showing varieties of mesh 

 and kinds of twine. 



68. Gill nets, full-sized and in models, for the capture of shad, 



cod, mackerel, herring, white-fish, minnows, and other 

 species. Gill nets made by the Indians from animal 

 fiber, " Babiche," &c. 



69. Trammel nets used for general fishing in rivers and ponds 



of Northern Mississippi Valley. Herring and cod 

 seines. "Baird collecting seine." Seines and nets 

 made of grass, pineapple fibers, and other materials. 



