86 SEA-FISH. 
nection with hand-lining, of which brief mention 
may here be made. 
In winders, there has not, it must be confessed, 
been any startling innovation ; and the old 
pattern, nothing more than four pieces of 
wood joined in the form of a square, is stillin general 
use. The only improvement has been the addition 
of a fixed handle on which the rest revolves, a con- 
venience ift recling 
in. A still better 
arrangement, how- 
ever, though also 
more expensive, is 
the  pollack - reel, 
fitted with an up- 
right piece of cane 
with a notch 
i through which the 
Revotvinc Hann Winver. line passes from 
the reel. The fish 
striking the line causes the cane to bend and 
release the line, which is then handled in the 
ordinary way. The chief function of this recl is in 
cases where more than one line is in use. Sports- 
men of the hypercritical school may object to the 
use of more than one line, as an approach to pot- 
hunting, but Iam unable to agree with this view. 
The sea is a large stew, and there is nothing 
to object to in the use of as many lines as one 
fisherman can manage properly’, for there is no fear 
of exhausting the supply. Two will as a matter 
of fact be found ample ; but even then the second 
should, especially where there are large pollack 
about, be hitched round something springy, be it 
only an inch or two of cane stuck upright in the 
Winders 
