CONCLUDING REMARKS 131 



WORMS. After worming, put back in the general 

 depot all worms left over, the first thing on return. 



BROKEN ROD. It sometimes happens that in 

 struggles with hitched-up tackle the top joint 

 goes smash. Lose no time, but lay about 2\ in. 

 of the broken piece with the other, and with the 

 wax-end always carried lap them together as 

 tightly as possible. It can be done in five 

 minutes. 



DIARY. It affords pleasant and useful reading 

 to keep a diary setting forth the result of each 

 day's fishing, the place, description of fish, lures, 

 weather, etc., not forgetting the weather of that 

 night or the following day. 



LIST. Lest anything be forgotten in the hurry 

 of departure, it is an excellent plan to have a list 

 of everything required for a day's fishing hung up 

 in one's ' den ' for scrutiny ere starting. A man 

 looks uncommonly blank after walking perhaps 

 four or five miles at discovering that some sine 

 qua non has been omitted. 



Before I adopted this plan I spoilt an odd day 

 at times, and one instance I recollect well, though 

 it did not concern tackle. I hurried off to a brook 

 three miles distant, and for once resolved to 

 thoroughly earn a smoke. I determined not to 



