HAND-LINING. 87 
gunwale. This is the hand-liner’s substitute for the 
top joint of the rod. Yet another of the Plymouth 
contrivances—and it should only be used where 
there are more than one line out—is the automatic 
striker. This sounds almost as bad as the winch 
from the further side of the Atlantic that strikes 
and recls up the fish, leaving the angler nothing to 
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do; but it is not quite so offensive, though there is 
more than a smack of “poaching” about it. All it 
does is to hook two fish out of three, while the 
fisherman is busy with another line. Personally, I 
do not as a rule make use of more than one line at 
a time, but there are many who do, and for them 
there can be nothing objectionable in the use of 
this striker. Its action is sufficiently explained by 
the annexed cut, the bell acting in much the same 
