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THL MULTIPLYING-REEL 



Is an ingenious and valuable contrivance. 

 With a multiplying-reel twenty or thirty yards 

 of slack line may be wound up almost in an 

 instant. For salmon fishing, and indeed when- 

 ever fine tackle is used, and heavy or desperate 

 fish are hooked, the multiplying-reel is in- 

 valuable. 



THE LANDING-NET. 



THIS is a very necessary appendage to the 

 angler's gear. When fishing with fine tackle, 

 heavy fish cannot be landed without a landing 

 net, except at great risk of losing them, along 

 with a portion of your tackle. The jointed 

 brass net-hoops are best and most portable. 



When you have hooked a good fish, and called 

 to your attendant to make use of the landing- 

 net ; never, under any circumstances, allow him 

 to lay hold of your line for the purpose of draw- 

 ing the fish nearer to the net. Many a fine fish 

 has been lost by indiscretions of the kind. 

 Unless your attendant can perform the simple 

 process of using the landing-net without laying 

 hold of the line, he had better desist altogether. 



