"Why, long lines with a sinker at the end and no poles."
"Do you just hold the line in your hand?"
"Certainly. And another thing that we don't use is a float. We just fish right down in the deep water—or the shallow water rather, for the best fishing is on bars where the water isn't more than twenty feet deep; but deep or shallow, the fish are at the bottom, except skip-jacks; they swim on top, and sometimes we troll for them. They call them blue fish up North, I believe, but we call them skip-jacks or jack mackerel."
"What's that?" asked Jack, as Ned spread out a round net for inspection.
"A cast net."
"What's it for?"
"Shrimps."
"But I thought we were going fishing."
"So we are. But we must go shrimping first. We must have some bait."
"Oh, we are to use shrimps for bait, are we?"