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being used, not only without any practical inconvenience, but 
with distinct advantage. 
The lead should be attached by a link of stout gut—of the 
same thickness, in fact, as the rest of the flight—and lapped on 
to the lip-hook, znside. 
The trace I use with this (or any other) flight for lake 
trolling, consists of 8 or 9 feet of picked gut, say, an ordinary 
3-yard casting line—salmon or trout gut, according to the 
size of the fish expected—with two sets of the smallest sized 
‘double swivels,’ knotted (not lapped)! into the gut at equal 
intervals, and a lead-wire ‘ swivel-compeller’ close above the 
upper set, to prevent risk of the line ‘kinking.’ 
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LEAD-WIRE SWIVEL-COMPELLER. 
The lead-wire for the present purpose should be a size or 
two thicker than that shown in the cut. To twist it on, lay a 
pin along the gut at the desired point, and twist the lead-wire 
round both pin and trace; then draw out the pin, and with 
the finger and thumb tighten up the coils of the wire until 
they hold firmly to the gut. The swivel-compeller is very in- 
conspicuous, and thoroughly efficient. If still more lead is 
required to sink the bait, it can be most conveniently added by 
running a pipe-shaped lead on to the reel-line, just above its 
junction with the trace, and therefore well away from the bait, 
or by twisting some more heavy lead-wire round the trace on 
the next link above the swivel-compeller. In the former case 
a knot should be tied in the reel-line over the lead to prevent 
its slipping up the line. For merely temporary purposes I 
1 Lapping is a disfiguring un-necessity. The simplest, neatest, and 
strongest junction between the gut and the swivels is to pass the gut, 
thoroughly well soaked, of course, through the swivel-loop, and then, with the 
end, make a double slip knot round the main trace (see second fig., p. 12), 
and draw it tight. 
