The fang'-kao, or barblesslance blade, is next common in use.
Some blacks substitute for the barbless point four pieces of thin fencing wire--each about 4 inches long, bound tightly together at one end, the loose ends being sharpened and slightly diverged.
The point is about 6 inches long, and on the barbless end is tightly wound successive layers of fibrous bark, until its size is adjusted to the socket in the haft.
The shorter line carries a small plain ivory lure of the common pattern, and the longer one a little flat barbless hook of copper with a broad flat shank.
When the fish is brought to the surface of the ice, he is detached from the barbless hook with a dextrous jerk, and almost instantly freezes solid.
Through a hole in the large end of this is driven the barbless brass hook, with a broad thin plate at one end bent up, flush with the convex side.
Paradisea apoda, barblessfeathers in the tail of; plumage of; and P.
The other two Japs have short, stiff poles with a wire attached and the barbless hook at the end.
However, an old bass told me one day that they were very grateful to the children for fishing with barbless hooks.
Mrs. Duff and her friend were convulsed with amusement, but they did not laugh until Dallas had run down to the wharf to meet his dear father, who had gone fishing and to please his boy had taken barbless hooks instead of barbed ones.
With these barbless hooks the bait was not impaled, but strapped on with shreds of bark.
The point is eight or ten inches long, the barblessend being swathed in fibre so that it may fit easily into the socket of the eight or ten feet shaft.
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