«J2 PRACTICAL LESSONS IN RIVER ANGLING. 



and on this circumstance the practice of tickhng trout 

 is founded. A favourite place for a large trout in 

 rivers, is an eddy, behind a rock or stone, where flies 

 and small fishes are carried by the force of the current, 

 and such haunts are rarely unoccupied, for if a fish 

 is taken out of them, his place is soon supplied by 

 another, who quits for it a less convenient situation." 



Trouting Rods. 



As without good instruments the best skill will often 

 prove unavailing in the art of angling, I shall here 

 give some directions respecting these, to aid the begin- 

 ner, till he acquire experience ; or if he have the curi- 

 osity to make his own rather than buy them at the 

 tackle makers, which is undoubtedly the best way. 



All the directions for making; rods in the anslins 

 books, are founded on the one originally published by 

 Dame Juliana Barnes, in the Book of St. Albans, who- 

 says, ''• how ye shall make your rodde craftily, here I 

 shall teche you. Ye shall ky tte [cut] betweene Mychel- 

 mas and Candlemas [Feb. 2nd.], a fayr stalFe, of a 

 fadom and an halfe longe and arme-grete, of hazyU, 

 wyllowe, or ashe ; and bethe [bake] hym in an bote 

 ovyn and sette hym evyn ; thenne, lete hym coole and 

 drye a moneth." Dame Juliana then proceeds with 

 much minuteness to direct how the several pieces are 

 to be rendered taper, and fitted to join into one rod 

 when wanted for use; '*and thus" she concludes, 

 '' shall ye make your rodde so prevy, that ye may walke 

 therwyth and there shall no man wyte [know] where 



