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sider it the best, we will proceed to communi- 

 cate to our readers. 



The gentleman above alluded to,, and whose 

 name we take the liberty without permission of 

 making use of not indeed to do honour to 

 him, but to ourselves, and for that reason, we 

 are confident, he will pardon our presumption, 

 fishes with the minnow, in the following very 

 simple manner. He uses a rod twenty-two 

 feet long. The different joints from but to top 

 are all made of stained and varnished bamboo 

 cane. It tapers far less deeply than a fly-rod, 

 and is consequently stiffer and less pliant. 

 However, towards the top it possesses sufficient 

 elasticity to allow the person who uses it to 

 direct the bait and line in the direction he 

 chooses, and when playing a large fish to throw 

 the strain on the but-end. The rings on it 

 are large, made of brass-wire, and stand 

 upright; the last position being of absolute 

 necessity on all rods used for trolling. The 

 line is full eighty yards long, and it is made 

 of silk very strongly plaited. It is, however, 

 in thickness, not more substantial than a com- 

 mon fly-line, but it is far stronger on account 

 of the force that must have been used in plait- 

 ing it and reducing it to so small a volume. 

 It is thickly varnished an excellent invention, 

 which prevents the line from being injured by 



