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Note. Some Anglers, when whipping for Chub and 

 Dace, in the same stream, confine themselves to the 

 red-spinner, the gnat-fly, and a fly of a dusky or dun- 

 colour, all on No. 9 hooks, making it a rule to use the 

 darkest fly last. In the river Lea, where few Trout 

 are met with, but which abounds with fine Chub and 

 Dace, together on the same sharps and shallows, those 

 flies will be found to answer well. 



CHAP. VI. 



Rods and Lines. 



In respect to fly-rods, I believe the London tackle- 

 makers can furnish as good as any that are made for 

 sale 3 though I know some gentlemen are partial to 

 those manufactured in the North and West parts of 

 England. I have purchased rods at Exeter, for fishing 

 in the river Ex, the Tamar, and other Trout streams in 

 Devonshire, in compliance with the request of some 

 friends who reside in those parts ; but I never expe- 

 rienced any advantage, in using them, over what I 

 carried with me from the metropolis. 



Fly-rods are made of bamboo, cane, hickery, hazel, 

 &c. from fifteen to eighteen feet long ; the common 

 hazel rod may be used by the Young Angler, during 

 his noviciate, to practise throwing a fly on land, in a 

 field, or any other convenient place, which practice I 



