Show FISH LINES OF GREAT LENGTH many of those employed in fishing for halibut declared to so bo sixty alilea long the most of the halibut are caught with tho the hook and line the fishing however has nothing gamy or sporting about it the lines are dropped down into the sea in such a way that the batted baited hooks rest on the bed ot of the ocean the lines are ot of great length some of them are GO 60 miles long when loaded with fish elsh it takes the steam engine on the vessel the tha better part of 0 a day to wind them up they are divided into sections each section having a float or buoy that rests on the surface and Is marked by a flag in the daytime and at night by a light the line lies right on tho the bed of the sea attached to it aro are hundreds ot of hooks and each hook Is batted baited the halibut swallows the bait and Is caught on the hook and held there until the line Is drawn indrawn up these thesa fish always feed on or close to the bed ot of the ocean christian herald |