Identifier: bookoffishfishin00rhea (find matches)
Title: The book of fish and fishing;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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l prove effi-cient For still fishing, where fish are small, onemay have fine sport with a plain rod, combinedwith a float and sinker, with two hooks on gutleaders. There is just the same variation in reels. Surf fishing demands a reel holding 300 yards of 12 to 18 thread Cuttyhunk line, and must be a quadruple multiplier. It will cost from $10 to $15. In fly fishing the same tackle that is used for black bass will do for striped bass. The lines generally used for surf fishing are linenCuttyhunk, from 9 to 18 thread, in length varyingwith the character of the fishing. For still fishingin summer, or bait fishing from shore, the line isusually of braided linen, smaller size, inlengths of fifty yards, with three-foot leaderof single gut. In trolling for small fish up to tenpounds, about one hundred feet of braided linen,size E or F, or two hundred feet of size E forlarger bass may be used. For small bass up to three pounds weight. No. 1or 2 sprout hooks on gut snells will be found suit-60
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POPULAR SALT-WATER GAME FISH Popular Salt=Water Game Fish able; in trolling, sprout hooks No. 2/0 to 3/0on gut snells, for small fish, and No. 5/0 to O/O forlarger bass. The best hooks for surf fishing onthe coast are knobbed sprout hooks No. 5/0to 8/0. These are to be secured to theline by two half hitches with an additionalhalf hitch to attach the loose end. The outfit isbetter with two twisted three-foot leaders; one at-tached to the line with a brass swivel, the secondfastened in like manner to the first; and linked tothe end of this, also by means of a swivel, a smallspinner; to the end of the spinner a hook should beattached, usually a 4/0 or 5/0. The striped bass is such an omnivorous feederthat many different kinds of bait are required . durino^ the season, but the favorites are smallBait o eel, shrimp, crab, and worm. In California little fish called shiners and sardines and the clams of the region, form the bill of fare. They also troll with the Golcher, Stewart, or Wilson s

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