Practical taxidermy, and home decoration : together with general information for sportsmen (1880)
Batty, Joseph H., d. 1906 · New York : Orange Judd Company · leaf 44
e whole should be weighted sothat when floatins: nothing is visible but the bait and thebare hook-shanks. This should be anchored with a brickor something of about equal weight, so that there will bea few feet of slack line. The hooks will have to be setfrom a boat or a line attached to the anchor,… … .^»1i*#^ 111) TRAPPING. 41 or head first, when they hook themselves in attemptingto take in the head of the fish. This is the only successful way to capture sea-gull-s,which are even more wary than eagles and hawks. Theywill not take a bait on a sand bar, though it may havebeen covered by the tide,…
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