LINES AND REELS. 33 
The dyeing of feathers is, however, a very nice and 
complicated business, and even after much trouble the 
amateur can seldom succeed so well as persons who 
make dyeing their single profession. Moreover their 
dyes are in many cases secrets, not known even to the 
tackle makers who employ them, and from whom I 
advise all anglers to obtain their supplies of feathers 
ready-dyed. ; 
GIMP. 
The thicknesses of the various sizes of gimp required 
in fresh-water fishing, and the trade numbers, are shown 
in the annexed engraving, 
the sizes and numbers 900 
>—$__—__——< 
being those of the best 00 ne 
gimp manufactured by 
Messrs. Kenning, of Little 
Britain, London. 
There are great diffe- 
rences in the quality and 
value of gimp, and it will 
commonly be found the 
wisest plan to obtain the 
most expensive, as the difference between good and 
bad cannot be judged by the eye and is often not 
discovered until the discovery has cost the loss of 
a good fish, The best rough and ready test is the 
strength. 
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