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Updated: June 19, 2025
They are on much the same plan as salmon weirs, only larger, opening both ways, and being placed usually in over ten fathoms of water and kept in place by anchors, shore lines, and floats and sinkers. Once down they are usually kept in place a whole season.
Then they bought their tackle: a couple of cheap reels, lines, leaders, sinkers, a book of assorted flies that the delightful clerk suggested, and a beautiful little tin box painted green, and stenciled with a gorgeous gold trout upon the lid, in which they were to keep the pint of salted shrimps to be used as bait in addition to the flies.
I had every sort of fishing-tackle in abundance, and both the colonel and Owen had complete outfits of rods and reels, with a vast variety of lines, hooks, squids, sinkers, gaffs, and landing-nets. Each of them had two sporting pieces, and all the equipments of a hunter. Before six in the morning, the mules appeared on the wharf, drawing the wagons, which were nothing but "hay-riggings."
Above and beside it are alangtin leaves, branches of the lanoti tree, sugar-cane, and a leafy branch of bamboo. Here also are found a net equipped with lead sinkers, a top-shaped device, and short sections of bamboo filled with liquor. In some towns this is the seat of the honored guest, who dips basi for the dancers. In San Juan this seat is called Patogaú.
But you must wait at least until you've both had dinner. Mr. Ashton, I'm sure, is half starved." "Me, too, Miss Chuckie. But you know I'd rather eat a wolf or a rustler or even a daring desperado than sinkers and beans, any day." "You'll come in with us and see what Daddy has to say about it," the girl insisted. She started to loosen her saddle-cinch.
Glorious knight he! the world all before him, and the blood of ten years racing and throbbing in his veins as he talks knowingly of hooks, and sinkers, and bait, and lines, and wears proudly the red flannel shirt which Mara had just finished for him. "How I do wish I were going with you!" she says. "I could do something, couldn't I take care of your hooks, or something?"
Wright as he took my hand and strolled up the river bank with me. I rather feared and dreaded those big roaring men like Bill Seaver. The horses were hitched in and the canoes washed out. Then we all turned to and dug some angle-worms. The poles were brought lines, hooks and sinkers were made ready and in an hour or so we were on our way up the river, Mr.
I was with him all I could, and I'll never forget how good that commissary sergeant was, a splendid young man named Orr, who always had a little pot of chicken broth for Benny and cornstarch, and what he fancied most of all a sort of thick dough cakes we called sinkers.
And the buoy was tossed overboard for the dory to pick up and hold to windward. Then the silent Fisheries officer got busy. Without a word, he reached for the net. It was made of a lighter twine than customary, and not thickly tarred, having also different corks to the usual type, and sinkers all over the net.
"Then here are the fishing lines," continued Rollo. "I bought two of them. They were very cheap." The fishing lines were very pretty. Each had a small round cork upon the end of a quill. The corks were red, touched with blue. There was a sinker for each, made of large shot. "The man put in several spare sinkers for me," resumed Rollo, "in case these should come off."
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