146 Fishing in North Carolina. 



it can be secured by paying a big price for it. 

 Select your bass lines without consulting your 

 pocket, do the same with your perch lines; but 

 if you are a bank fisherman after eels, catfish 

 and other scavengers, select Cuttyhunk lines 

 which are the best all round cheap lines made. 



As to corks or floats everybody owns his 

 choice; some preferring barrel-shaped, others 

 liking the hen-egg shape, others the rooster-egg 

 shape, and still others a cork pointed at both 

 ends ; but I prefer a sound 3 1-2 inch cylinder- 

 shaped cork so that if I am momentarily occu- 

 pied with thoughts about other people's business 

 and the bass soks that cork under, I can hear 

 it make a noise like a Keeleyite taking a drink. 



Then let us come down the line to the hook 

 and this should be medium-sized, sharp, and 

 springy, with a long and perfect barb. It does 

 not matter whether it have eye, or the line is to 

 be knitted on; most fishermen, however, prefer 

 the latter, claiming greater strength for it, and 

 I like it. 



The present nenoration has grown to favor 

 smaller hooks for all sorts of fish; and if we 



