The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 178
UE. heavy lines for deep quick-running water for general~y float-fishing are fitted thus :—First a hook-length of-e2js& ^j. or g^t, with one small shot on, six inches from thehook., next a length of strong double hair (if hair hasbeen used for the hook length) looped at each end, onwhich, slide… … I bream, or barbel abound, and take the bait in the same swims! as the roach, it would be folly to use single hair. The recommendations, however, of single hair are, that it ismore elastic and yielding than gut, and, consequently,will kill a fish of greater weight than its actualA strength would…
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