The Sea-fisherman: Comprising the Chief Methods of Hook and Line Fishing in ... by James C. Wilcocks

Author:James C. Wilcocks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Published: 1884-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Fig. 46.—Boat-shaped I>ead and Trace with Copper Swivels, and Swivel actual size.

shown in fig. 46, and strong hooks (No. 3, fig. 62, p. 210) for shore and the larger for offing fishing lashed on with brass wire to a piece of stout line, which wire is wrapped round to a distance of 8 or 9 inches above the hook, to protect the snooding from the teeth of the fish; or traced green hemp (as in fig. 47, p. 178) is used for the same purpose. To prepare the snood with wire (see p. 103); with hemp, as follows : Cut off a piece of strong line, medium-sized, or stout trawl twine 30 inches long, middle it, and secure it with tightly-drawn hitches over the flattened top of the hook. Hitch the hook over a nail, the latch of a door, or other firm point of attachment, and having

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made fast another bit of strong line round the waist, secure the end of the snood thereto. Now take some green hemp (obtainable at a rope-maker's), middle it, and leaning back to make the snood as rigid as possible, or, as seamen say, * as taut as a bar,' plait on the hemp tightly over the snood, particularly

at the beginning of the binding and between the flattened top of the hook and the snooding. To fasten off, when you have nearly plaited on the whole, interlace the hemp between the double snood once or twice, and tie an ordinary knot (fig. 47). I much prefer this plan to wire for trots, and in Guernsey it is always used for hand-lines. A very general way of mounting Conger hooks, as well as Cod hooks, is with ten or a dozen thicknesses of stout twine; you hitch the hook over a nail or other point of attachment, fasten one end of the twine to the hook in the usual manner with a clove-hitch, then pass it round your hand and take another clove-

U hitch, and continue the process

until you have the required number of thicknesses of twine. You complete the job by a succession of marline hitches until you reach within two inches of the bow you have formed by passing the twine round your hand The strop thus formed should be 7 inches long, and to the eye you can conveniently bend on the snood.

The length of snood below the lead should not exceed two fathoms.

The best bait is undoubtedly Squid or Cuttle-fish, and if the

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