This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... ledger in this Letter, because I do not find it often required in sea fishing from boats. The paternoster, with a long single hook link bearing two or more hooks, answers almost every purpose, telling the bites as easily as any ledger that was ever made. But for those who prefer a ledger for lout work, I can recommend ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... ledger in this Letter, because I do not find it often required in sea fishing from boats. The paternoster, with a long single hook link bearing two or more hooks, answers almost every purpose, telling the bites as easily as any ledger that was ever made. But for those who prefer a ledger for lout work, I can recommend the tackle much favoured by my friend Mr. Aflalo. It simply consists of an ordinary freshwater conical plummet, having the usual brass ring at the top. The running line is passed through this ring, and a small piece of match tied in (clove hitch, see page GO) near the end of it. To the end of the line is then tied about a yard and a half of gut, on which may be one or two hooks. When a fish takes the bait the line is drawn through the brass ring at the top of the plummet, much the same as in freshwater fishing, when it is drawn through a hole in a bullet. Of course, these little plummets are not of much use except where the water is shallow, or where there is little tide. The ordinary ledger is illustrated and explained on page 137. In dealing with the various fish in Book V., I have in most cases illustrated the hook to be used, showing its exact size. But I may mention here that, for boat work generally, three of the most useful sizes of hooks for any, except very large, fish, are those shown in the illustration. Slight differences are found between the hook scales of different makers, so I do not give the numbers. But what of the hand-lines? may be asked. I am afraid I shall disgust old-fashioned and orthodox sea fishermen if I say that there is no known tackle for fishing close to the bottom which can be more advantageously attached to the end of a hand-line than those I have already described for use with the rod. But unless the user has ..
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