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Title: All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Dykes, T
Subjects: Horses Sports
Publisher: London : Fores, Piccadilly, W.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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m down. Only a monthago they will tell you that one of their number was hooked inthe hand, and was dragged to the stern crying mournfully, Lads, Im gane ! Im gane ! and gane he would have beenhad not his comrades caught firm hold of his legs and held fasttill the hook broke. But the risk of death from hooking is toogreat for them not to take some precaution against it, so thatstrapping young fellow who sits close to the steersman, with hisknife glittering in the fitful flashes of the light, is hard on thewatch for a foul. One cry from the men engaged in baiting,and with a sweep of the blade the line is severed and the lifesaved ; and should he miss, heaven have pity on him—thats all.Smashing through the white and green water for about five miles,the line has been run out, and the work of hauling has to becommenced. Fish bite at the bait as the hook reaches thebottom, not (as many suppose) as it lies on the ground, and solittle time between shooting and hauling has to be allowed, the
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With the Long-Line Fishers on the East Coast. 241 regular interval as a rule being five minutes. Though not sograndly picturesque as the shooting, the process of hauling isnot less interesting. As the line has to be taken over the bow,the tack of the lugsail has to be fixed on the cranse in the lee-side in order to be out of the way. Should the wind be deadahead the boat beats back to the other end of the line, and haulsin the direction that the line has been shot. Sometimes, though,the line is lifted by the boat making sb.ort tacks, and in suchcases the great depth of water forward, which yachtsmen objectto in East Coast boats, as causing a tendency to broach to whenrunning, helps to steady the craft in a sea-way, and so cause noundue strain upon the line. Lying-to for a time, we set thestove aglow before starting on our return voyage, and the menseemed to be thawed into fresh life by the boiling tea whichthey poured over their throats. Getting on deck again the boatwas reached slowl

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