Crossword-Solution: SNELLS 6 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

There were nine Snells, all relatives, in the patriot ranks; so far as I can remember, there were five Bellingers, five Seebers, five Wagners, and five Wollovers--and it may well be five of more than one other family.

And if they fooled me, who am often called very wise, what would you think of their foolin' a fish, who hain't got any bump of wisdom on their heads? And then there wuz trollin' spoons of all kinds and shapes, in all kinds of metal, and trollin' squids--I'd never hearn of that name before--squid! but they had 'em of all kinds; and tackle boxes, and floats, and landin' nets, and gaff hooks; there is sunthin' else I never hearn on--gaff hooks! and snells, and gimps, and spinners.

And he sez, "How a man duz enjoy seein' such things that he's ust to and knows all about!" And I sez, "What do you do with squids, anyway, or gaffs, or snells?" "Why," sez he, "I should snell with 'em, and gaff, and squid.

Jahne and Anthony Moors, Jersey City, N.J.--This consists of a leader made of spring wire, bent into V form, provided with a swivel and eye at its middle part, and with eyes or loops at its ends to receive the line and snells.

The pouch has a sheath strongly sewed on the back side of it, where the light hunting knife is always at hand, and it also carries a two-ounce vial of fly medicine, a vial of "pain killer," and two or three gangs of hooks on brass wire snells--of which, more in another place.