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The hooks should be very strong, and the points should be 
filed very sharp: this last piece of advice applies to all hooks 
for all kinds of fishing, and its importance is not generally 
appreciated by amateur fishermen. 
Trolling-lines of cotton are better than linen lines. They 
should be hawser-laid, so as not to kink, and be from three 
eighths to a quarter of an inch in diameter. Although it is 
well to have them fifty yards in length, yet when the fish are 
feeding in earnest fifty feet is line enough to let off’ Always 
fasten the end of your line to the boat, and in case you put 
outriggers, a check line should be attached to each to draw 
them to the boat or yacht, so as to take hold of them without 
disturbing the rigger. Lines to outriggers should be so short 
as to skitter on the surface of the water. 
Gloves of heavy woolen yarn should be worn; the line 
will wear through leather much quicker than through wool, 
and woolen gloves do not slip, and they are more comforta- 
ble to the hands. It is common to double the gloves over 
the forefinger and on the under side of the little fingers. 
Buckskin or dogskin, the two best kinds of leather to use 
when wet, are only a momentary protection, good for noth- 
ing as trolling-gloves or thumb-stalls. 
Tue Firing Fisu. 
