Sea Fishing (the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes) (1895)
Bickerdyke, John, Hemy, C. Napier (Illus.), Duke of Beaufort (Ed.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 246
ary item of tackle. Not only do fish often kick off when being lifted on a hook through the air, but if at all large their weight, coupled with the weight of the lead, may be suffi- cient to break the ‘gut tackle which doubtless many readers of this book are in the habit of using. Even with coarse… … HEMENS' READ, ALLCOCK'S ‘LEAD. I was once fishing with a No. 7 hoox and a fine gut pater- noster for sand-dabs when I hooked a conger of over seven pounds. We had a landing-net, but into this it resolutely refused to be inveigled, and my Welsh boatman, though well used to these ‘ serpents,’ as the…
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