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Silkworm gut lines are from two to four yards, and are used as 

 lengths to be added to the line on the reel, either for fly or bottom- 

 fishing. 



Lines for trolling are of several kinds, some of twisted silk, and 

 others of silk and hair, but that sold by the tackle-makers, called 

 patent trolling-line, is in most general use. A strong reel, and from 

 forty to sixty yards of line, are requisite. 



Indian weed is a good material for bottom-tackle, but inferior to 

 the silkworm gut. 



Eel-lines, night-lines, and trimmers, may be purchased ready 

 fitted up. 



A winch, or reel, is used for running-tackle, and is generally made 

 of brass, but I have seen them in Scotland made of wood, where they 

 are called pirns ; the multiplying reel was formerly much used, but 

 from its liability to be out of order, a plain reel, without a stop, is 

 now generally preferred. Reels are of various sizes, containing from 

 twenty to one hundred yards of line. 



Bleak and Minnow tackle are of endless variety in form and con- 

 trivance, almost every experienced angler having his own peculiar 

 plan. 



The paternoster is a line used for Pearch fishing, made of strong 

 gut) and should be connected with a running-line by a fine steel 

 swivel. It contains three hooks, the size Nos. 7, 8, or 9, placed at 

 equal distances from each other; the first near the bottom, where a 

 small plummet of lead is fixed to sink the line, and the others each 

 from eighteen inches to two feet apart. The hooks are so contrived 

 by swivels as to revolve round the line, and thereby give play to the 

 live Minnows with which they are to be baited. 



FLOATS. 



Much care and judgment are required in adapting yom- float to the 

 various streams or waters in which you angle. A deep and rapid river 

 will require a float that will carry from sixteen to twenty of No. 4 

 shot. If the stream be deep and the current gentle, a float carrying 

 one-half that number of shot will be sufficiently heavy ; and when the 

 water is perfectly still, a very light quill-float, carrying two of No. 6 



