SEA-RODS, REELS, AND VARIOUS TACKLES. 61 
rate enjoy the thanks of all whose eyes he has 
opened. This “Spin-Brown” tackle, as it is called, 
can be applied to bottom-fishing or drift-lining, as 
well as to railing, for which its inventor originally 
designed it. 
It will now be necessary to mention one or two 
other tackles in general use for 
certain methods of fishing ; but 
the three foregoing, the pater- 
noster, chopstick and leger, are 
the chief. 
A style of fishing, the practical 
details of which will be more 
fully dealt with in the 
chapter on boat-fishing, 
and known as raving, whiffing 
—in Cornwall as plummetting, 
not unlike the plumb-lining of 
the Windermere charr-fishers— 
or reeling, often requires a pecu- 
liarly leaded trace at the end 
of the main line. The material 
of which this trace is made de- 
pends largely on the size and 
strength of the fish in the neigh- 
bourhood, twisted or plaited, gut 
being a favourite, though I have 
managed good pollack and 
mackerel, the former up to 5 lbs., 
on single gut. For the beginner 
—and this is a general rule in 
Railing 
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“Sprin-BRown” TAcKLE. 
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the choice of gear—the stronger trace will be found 
safer, as the playing of anything over 2 lbs. on 
single gut is so much a matter of practice that it 
becomes a question no longer of the fish, but purely 
