What to do and how to do it; the American boys handy book (1920)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 328
an. Snugly ensconced beside a warm stove, with pipe inmouth, the old veterans spin their yarns, and, oblivious to theraging northwest winds, watch their lines, which are attached toa rack overhead and hang down, passing through a hole in theice; The bait dangles about eight or ten feet under the… … his line. In this manner one man will succeed in catching from ten to fifteen pounds in a day. A gentleman who seems to be posted upon the subject of smelt fishing sends me the following device, which ought to have been included in the chapter on odd modes of fishing. My correspondent says : During…
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