This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... if you can hit off the turn of the tide, if you can be on the spot half an hour, or a quarter of an hour, before it commences to flow, you will have excellent sport for the brief period that the small fish are passing. Put on a dead fish, and spin as for jack with stout hooks on gimp. Gut will not do, it will ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... if you can hit off the turn of the tide, if you can be on the spot half an hour, or a quarter of an hour, before it commences to flow, you will have excellent sport for the brief period that the small fish are passing. Put on a dead fish, and spin as for jack with stout hooks on gimp. Gut will not do, it will be cut through in a trice. The gimp too must be stout. I have had every available bit of tackle broken by successive fish in twenty minutes. But then I was learning; I was buying my experience a great deal dearer than you will buy this book. But I Chapt. xn. How to tackle them. 149 have made the fish pay for it eventually, for, when a shoal has been passing, I have had them out as fast as ever I could land them and throw in my line. It is "a short life and a merry one." Have good stout gimp, and let there be two trebles, besides the lip hook, on your flight of hooks, instead of only one treble as for Mahseer. The fishes' mouths are hard, and closely set with teeth, so that it is as well to have the extra chance of an extra hook. The fish you will take this way are various. One of them runs from three, or four, to thirty pounds. Whether he grows bigger than that, or not, I don't myself know; and am unwilling to give lax and fervid native descriptions. But fully thirty pounds in weight I have seen them myself on terra fir ma. This is apparently a Serranus, for it is very similar to the first plate in "Day's Fishes of Mala-"bar and Canara." It is called by the Canara fishermen Kulanji when small, and Madavu when large; just as we use the names Jack and Pike. I have a floating suspicion that it is synonymous with the "Barmin," of which I hear such awful tackle-breaking stories from Malabar. A good fisherman there, is well satisfied from...
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