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shot nipped on just above the hook) has also been 
modified for use in salt water, a second hook being 
generally attached above the lead, in which form 
the tackle becomes, strictly speaking, a combined 
leger and paternoster. In boat-fishing, where the 
angler is directly over the lead, an ordinary 
plummet is found more sensitive than the regu- 
lation leger-lead. 
The chop-stick, the favourite tackle of the pro- 
fessional hand-liners, has also been made up Chop- 
in a number of “ rigs,” not, however, for the stick 
modern amateur, but for the native fishermen of 
each county. These rigs differ chiefly in the 
length of the arms and in the position of the lead. 
For light inshore fishing, the pattern overleaf figured 
will be found most sensitive, but for deeper water 
something heavier will be preferred. 
It has often troubled sea-anglers, when confronted 
with a strong tide, that each rod will not bear 
without undesirable strain more than a_ given 
amount of lead, and this difficulty has at last been 
.got over by Mr. T. Y. Bramwell. My atten- 
tion was first drawn to it in the Pshing Gazette, 
and it is so simple as to explain itself. The secret 
lies in the use of an independent hand-line for the 
lead, of the entire weight of which the rod is thus 
relieved, the rod line being merely caught in the 
clip, from which it is freed by the striking of a 
fish. Like the majority of excellent innovations, 
this device is so simple that the wonder is that 
it Should not have been thought of sooner. Un- 
fortunately, too, it is a tackle that does not present 
sufficient difficulties in construction to enable its 
inventor to patent it and reap the material benefit 
which he so fully deserves; but he will at any 
