The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-29

be able to replace any amount of gear
that may be lost or ruined.
In addition to a huge stock of the
regular hand lines for cod, pollock
and mackerel fishing, and the tens of
thousands of hooks needed for travis,
big quantities of lines and tackle to be
used for special methods of fishing
must be carried.
There are sets of lines for digging"
for mackerel. "Jigging'' is done when
a school of mackerel flashes around
the craft. The mackeral jigs are bright
metal squids with sharp hooks fasten-
ed to thin lines. They are tossed
among the school and jerked up and
down as fast as the fishermen can
work their arms. The mackerel snap
at the shining metal and are hauled
in-board as fast as men can 'Slat" the
fish off and bait.
Common blue snapper lines must be
aboard also. They are thin lines with
plain hooks, used when the mackerel
take bait instead of the squid.
Frequent visitors to the Banks are
the beautiful squids-baby devil fish
which are highly priced for bait. They
often appear in schools so big that
the sea is froth with them, and then
the men drop everything else and
swing out their squid lines with treble
and quadruple hooks attached. These
are JlSBeQ swiftly uUe SCHOOlS
and the squids are impaled on them,
sometimes two or three being taken
at one jerk.
Hardware Stores Afoat.
Besides tackle, the Gloucester
smack carries an immense amount Of
small hardware on each trip.
There is a stock of forks, for
shoveling fish from the dories into
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hold. There are one tined, two tined
and three tined forks. A bait mill to
chop fish and offal for bait, hurdy-
gurdys used to attach to dories for
hauling in halibut travis, ham
mers to break up the shells of the big
cookies used for bait, salt scoops to
use in sailing fish, wooden scoops to
use in batting dories, galvanized iron
torches for lighting the deck when
cleaning fish at night, rollers to fasten
to sterns of dories to haul travis
of all these a sufficient stock Is carried
to meet emergencies.
An idea of the variety of demands
on fishing smack may be gained
from the following list of smaller ar
ticles that are carried on every we'll
found vessel; wooden mittens for
handling fish in cold weather; cotton
mittens to be used for handling fish
in weather when the wooden mittenS
are too warm; small wooden nip
pers" used for hand line fishing; rub
Der bands for holding the mittens on
and also for keeping the oiled clothing
close around the boots; mackerel bait
beavers" to throw bait out to mack
erel when cumming to lure them
around the boat; soapstone to be
heated and poured into rubber boots
at night to dry them; files to sharpen
fish-hooks; rubber finger cots to be
worn when fingers are wounded or
sore from salt; oak scrub brooms to
clean decks and dories; mackerel jig
molds; and, of course, seine and sail
needles and all other implements
needed by seamen.
OF the knives carried on a smack
engaged in general fishing, there are
halibut heading knives. halibut fetch
ing knives, common bait knives, had
dock rippers clam knives. mackerel
splitters. skinnlng knives. cod throat
ing knives, cod splitting knives and
scTaping knives.