n8 MAKING A FISHERY. 



The wire. There is this objection to the use of nets, 



deadly as they are, — they cannot be used at 

 a minute's notice or in every place where a pike 

 is seen. There is, however, an instrument 

 which in the hands of an expert is almost as 

 deadly as a net, and is always at hand — this is 

 the wire. To make it, take a length of brass 

 wire, either single or of two or three strands 

 twisted together, according to the size of the 

 pike to be wired. At one end of it, marked A on 

 the accompanying plate (Fig. VI.), twist a small 



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Fig. VI. 



open loop or eye and pass the wire through this 

 eye so as to form a running noose. At the 

 other end of the wire (B) make another eye, and 

 through it pass a piece of stout twine. C D 

 is the stick to which the wire is fastened by a 

 few turns of the twine, as shown on the plate. 

 At the end (C) of the stick a deep notch, or 

 split is made, and the wire is pressed into this 

 notch to steady it. The wire, when fixed, should 



