1 8 The North Country Angler. 



finer lines : and in two cases, links with single 

 hairs, when the water is very fine, to fish with 

 natural flies and insects. 



In another partition, I have two long and 

 strong lines to fish in eddies, and deep places of 

 pools at night, with dew worms, snails, moths, 

 beetles, &c. 



In the sixth partition, I have bait hooks of 

 several sizes, in an oiled parchment ; and in a 

 folded paper, I have bits of wash leather, and 

 cork, neatly cut, to imitate cod-bait, straw-bait, 

 &c. I have also Indian grass, silk- worm gut^ 

 and links of hair unplaited. When these two 

 sides of my book are closed together, it will be 

 seven inches long, and about five broad, which an 

 angler may carry in his pocket ; and I would ad- 

 vise every angler to have such an one, and then 

 he needs not waste any of his time in dressing 

 flies, or wrapping on hooks, or plaiting hairs at 

 the water side. 



But, though I like this pocket-book very well, 

 yet I have often made use of a tin box, that I 

 had made on purpose. It is about five or six 

 inches in diameter, two inches deep, and has 

 two rings of tin in the inside, fixed to the bottom, 

 and as high as the outside rim. The bigger of 

 these is an inch and a half from the outer rim : 

 the lesser is two inches over, and has a lid or 

 cover to it. 



I can make this box hold all that I have occa- 

 sion for at any ordinary fishing bout. My great 

 lines, I have with flies and bait hooks at them, 

 in the bigger round ; all my links, with flies at 

 them, in the second round $ and hooks, silks, 



