62 PRACTICAL LESSONS IN RIVER ANGLING. 



this circumstance the practice of tickling 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 shah 1 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 angling 

 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 kytte [cut]betweene Mychel- 

 mas and Candlemas [Feb. 2nd.], a fayr stafFe, of a fa- 

 dom and a halfe longe and arme-grete, of hazyll, wyl- 

 lowe, or ashe ; and bethe [bake] hym in an hote ovyn 

 and sette hym evyn; thennelete 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 ; te and thus," she concludes, " shall ye 

 make your rodde so prevy that ye may walke therwyth 

 and there shall no man wyte [know] where abowte 



