More about the black bass; by Henshall James A. (James Alexander) 1836-1925

Author:Henshall, James A. (James Alexander), 1836-1925
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Black bass, Fishing, Fishing -- Equipment and supplies
Publisher: Cincinnati, R. Clarke & co.
Published: 1889-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

102 SUPI'LEMENr TO THE BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS.

water, and consequently render very freely in casting the minnow.

These lines are made in several styles, and of the best selected dressed and raw silk. The dressed or boiled silk line is very firm and light, weighing not quite two grains to the yard—one hundred yards weighing one hundred and eighty-five grains. It is of the same caliber as the No. 1 sea-grass line, and fully as strong, sustaining a strain -of eight pounds. It is of a pinkish-drab or light chocolate color.

The raw silk line is very hard and compact, and a trifle heavier than the boiled silk line, weighing about two and one-third grains to the yard, or two hundred and thirty-five grains to a hundred yards. It is mottled in color, usually white and green, like most raw silk lines. It sustains a dead weight of ten pounds, which is at least three times the strength actually required with a pliant rod. I have often killed Bass averaging three pounds with a line that would not sustain more than a pound, dead weight.

The Henry Hall Company also makes this line waterproof by a new process, which does not detract in any way from its use as a bait line, as the waterproofing does not diminish its flexibility or softness in any degree—a result -that had before been impossible to obtain, as all waterproof lines were too stiff and unyielding for minnow-casting.

The process of waterproofing, however, makes the line perfectly black in color, which at first sight might be deemed an objection by some. But I have experimented with this, line by numerous practical tests, alternating with lines of lighter tints, and have never discovered that >it made the slightest difference to the Bass themselves. And if we will reflect a moment, and hark back to our youthful experience

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