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to be fished. This reel should have a simple large barrel 
without multipliers. Floats may or may not be used, 
they. are by no means required. The reel-line must be 
strong, and the plaited silk is that form now usually 
adopted, as it is found to be more free from “ kink- 
ing ” than any other. An essential accessory to pickerel- 
fishing is the swivel, which may be either the box-swivel 
or the hook-swivel; the latter differing from the former 
only in having a small hook at one end. These are attached 
to lengths of gut, or more usually gimp, forming with their 
help what are called double or single swivel-traces. 
The single swivel-trace consists of about 12 inches of 
gut or gimp, with a hook-swivel at one end, and a loop 
of its own substance at the other, which attaches it to the 
reel-line by the usual draw bow-knot. The double swivel- 
trace has, in addition, an extra length of gut or gimp, 
ending also in a loop, and between the two a box-swivel, 
by which the tendency to twist in spinning is still further 
diminished. In both cases the hook-swivel receives the 
loop of the hook-length of gut or gimp after it is baited ; 
and in both instances, also, swan-shot or lead, in some form, 
is required to sink the bait; and it is attached in greater 
or less weight, according to circumstances, to the gimp 
close to the hook-swivel. 
The hooks will be more particularly described under 
each mode of fishing ; and for their application to the bait 
a needle, called a baiting-ncedle, is required. 
A landing-net or hook will be required, as pickerel are 
sometimes of such a size as to demand their assistance. 
The former is merely a circle of iron, either plain or 
