CHAPTER III 



TACKLE AND EQUIPMENT 



These subjects have been so fully and ably treated 

 in the Badminton volume on fishing and other works 

 that it is not my purpose to deal with them except in 

 the most general terms. A few hints derived from 

 my own experience may not, however, be out of place, 

 and the experienced sportsman can skip them if he 

 will. 



Gentle reader ! whatever may be your particular 

 taste or fancy, let me at least entreat you to spare no 

 reasonable expense to provide yourself with the best 

 and most reliable tackle of all sorts that can possibly 

 be procured. An expensive article is not necessarily 

 a dear one. Deal with men who have a reputation 

 to maintain, and rely upon it that the very dearest 

 bargain you can possibly acquire is the cheap rod 

 which snaps at the ferrule like a carrot when you are five 

 miles from home, and the water in order ; the reel which 

 catches at a critical moment, or the gut which breaks 



