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Home-Made Fishing Tackle.
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Beginning at the most convenient point, take a string from each adjoining pair and make a simple knot of them, as shown

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Fig. 43.
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Fig. 44.

by the diagram. Continue all the way around the hoop knotting the strings together in this manner. Then commence on the next lower row and so on until you reach a point where, in your judgment the net ought to commence to narrow or taper down. Image missingFig. 45. This can be accomplished by knotting the strings a little closer together, and cutting off one string of a pair at four equidistant points in the same row. Knot as before until you come to a clipped line; here you must take a string from each side of the single one and knot them, being careful to make it come even with others in the same row. Before tightening the double knot pass the single string through, and after tying a knot close to the double one cut the string off close. (See Fig. 45 A.)

Continue as before until the row is finished, only deviating

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