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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTTINGHAM AXGLIKG. CHAPTER II. BOTTOM-FISHINGcontinued. NOTTINGHAM ANGLINGCASTING FROM THE REELDACEINOLIGHT CORKING THE SLIDER, ETC. Hating Spoken of the Nottingham school of fishing, it may be as well here to give some idea of its method and the means and appliances connected with it. In the first place, then, as to tackle, Nottingham reels differ widely from those commonly employed; they are usually made of wood and in two pieces. The reel part turning on a spindle fixed in the centre of the portion which forms the basis of the reel. This is contrived so that the reel shall run with the utmost freedom at the lightest touch. These reels were invented chiefly for bank-fishing, where it is required to cast out a long line. In the fashion pursued by the fishermen who require to cast a long line on the Thames, for ledgering or spinning more particularly, the line is drawn off the reel and laid loosely in coils at the fisherman's feet. Such a practice would not do where the angler is walking along the bank of a river, or fishing haply from a withy or reed bed, for his line would be constantly catching in twigs, thorns, or particles of rubbish, and a tangle at the rings at every cast would be inevitable. Added to this, the Nottingham style of float-fishing absolutely requires the finest and lightest silk running-line made, and the line used for float-fishing is of Derby twist, scarce coarser than the common netting-silk 50 THE NOTTINGHAM REEL. This would, if drawn off the reel and laid in coils, of itself hank and tangle up into inextricable knots, and consequently it is required to run off the reel, and that, as I have said, with the utmost freedom from friction, for if there were much friction it would not run at all. Indeed, such is the freedom of these reels, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458994875 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458994872 |
| Weight | 0.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $22.16 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 270 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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