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way as the similar arrangement on the bamboo © 
tackles rigged up for catching albicore and barra- 
couta in mid-ocean. 
Another matter to which some attention has 
been given during the past two or three years is 
some pattern of lead that will facilitate rapid 
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changing, so desirable in the tideway, where the 
angler may start fishing with half an ounce at low 
water and require to add weight gradually until, 
when the tide is running very strong, 2 or 3 Ibs. 
will, on the hand-line, be none too much. I have 
several of these new patent leads before me, two 
of which are figured here ; while a third, the device, 
I belicve, of Macpherson of Southampton, is shown 
