SEA-RODS, REELS, AND VARIOUS TACKLES. 71 
jetties, a handle of 5 or 6 ft. will often be found 
indispensable. Of the variety of patterns that are 
designed for the trout stream or salmon river, and 
which are doubtless well enough in the right 
place, I would counsel dis- 
trust: they are not adapted 
to the rough wear and tear 
of sea-fishing; and even if 
the salt water does not tell 
sooner or later on the all too 
unprotected screws, the fragile 
parts are certain to come to 
grief, most often when beach- 
ing the boat, a very trying 
time when the seas run heavy 
for everything on board. The 
simplest thing is in sea-fishing, 
as in much beside, the best. 
My own gaff for boat work 
—I bought it in Australia 
for about a shilling—is a 3 ft. 
ash pole, into one end of which 
is wedged a hake-hook, the 
barb of which has been re- PES 
moved. The flattened end feSsyee= 
of the shank was obviously SHS 
beaten back in a curve, driven i ——— 
into the hollow end of the Wes 
ash handle, and kept in its 
place by a number of small 
wedges. I have brought a number of fish to the 
boat with it in both hemispheres, and never want a 
better. The gaff is,asa rule, used for large fish, the 
net for small, an indefinite division that leaves room 
for the exercise of individual eccentricity. As a 
matter of fact, it is a mistake to leave the beach 
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