. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatoriae, describing noted fishing-places and the pleasures of solitary fly-fishing. Fishing; Fishes. TROUT PLY-FISHING. 397 a handle, as represented in the hirger figure of the annexed illustration, and then take a few turns of waxed twine near the bow, and again at the end of the handle, fastening in a leather tab with a button-hole. It is to be suspended by a
. The American angler's book : embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them : with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making, and directions for fish-breeding : to which is appended, Dies piscatoriae, describing noted fishing-places and the pleasures of solitary fly-fishing. Fishing; Fishes. TROUT PLY-FISHING. 397 a handle, as represented in the hirger figure of the annexed illustration, and then take a few turns of waxed twine near the bow, and again at the end of the handle, fastening in a leather tab with a button-hole. It is to be suspended by a button sewed on the back of your coat below the collar. It does not annoy or impede your progress, and is ready for use when required; a bow ten or twelve inches in diameter, and a handle six or eight inches in length, is sufficient. Where. the two surfaces of the rattan come in contact, pare off a thiu strip from each, to make them lie together snugly; but do not take off enough to impair the strength of the handle. A more sightly net can be made as follows [see the ligure to the right]: Bend a piece of rattan thirty inches long into a circle, sticking the two ends into a brass tube, which has a screw on the outer circumference; this screw is fitted into a nut in the end of a ferule fastened on the end of a short han- dle. The handle can be unscrewed, and the net may be packed in the creel by slightly compressing the bow. It is carried, when fishing, in the same way as the net before described, buttoned to the wading-jacket by a tab. For fear I may fail to mention it elsewhere, I would here impress on the angler the convenience, and, as it frequently turns out, the absolute necessity, of having fine and coarse silk and twine in his pockets, as well as the indispensable lump. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the
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