56 SEA-FISH. 
equal force to the hand-line, on the management of 
which some special hints are given in the next 
chapter. 
There are three typical rigs of bottom-tackle, 
—the paternoster, leger, and chopstick. The multi- 
plication of patterns and fads based on these three 
types is infinite; and if I explain the standard 
principle of each, the rest may very well be left to 
the angler’s own ingenuity, for it is then merely a 
question of adapting one or the other to some 
unforeseen condition of things,—a swift current 
maybe, a dockhead, or an overhanging rock. 
The history of these names, of the first more 
particularly, having been discussed by every fore- 
going writer and being of no practical interest, I 
will merely refer to the accompanying figures for 
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Revotvinc Boom. 
all the explanation necessary. It will at once be 
Pater- seen that the object of the paternoster is 
noster to scarch more than one depth; of the chop- 
stick, to keep the hooks at the same depth, usually 
just clear of the ground ; while the leger has to 
