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Code and Ellinwood easily found their trawl buoy by the glimmer

of the light across the water. They immediately began to plant

the trawl-lines in the tubs aboard the dory. The big buoy for the

end of the line they first anchored to the bottom with dory

roding.

Then, as Ellinwood rowed slowly, Code paid the baited trawl-line

out of the tubs. As there are hooks every few feet, so are there

big wooden buoys, so that the whole length of the line--sometimes

twenty-five hundred feet--is floated near the surface.

When the last had been paid out, a second anchor and large buoy

was fixed, and their trawl was "set." Next they turned their

attention to picking the trawl already in the water.

As the line came over the starboard gunnel Code picked the fish

off the hooks, passing the hooks to Pete, who baited them and

threw them over the port gunnel. Thus they would work their way

along the whole of the line.

Many of the hooks that came to Code's hands still had the bait

with which they were set.