Leads and Floats. 1 9 



which we anglers of the present day have 

 to thank that genial angler and angling 

 writer Dr. John Brunton, M.A. 



We are told how to soften these needles, 

 barb them, shape them, and re-temper 

 them, and then how to fasten the line to 

 them, so that the latter is bound on inside 

 the shank next the point, and not outside 

 a bit of advice which has been repeated 

 by almost every angling writer after her. 



Leads and Floats. 



Here again the illustrations rough 

 woodcuts as they are do no manner of 

 justice to the text. The leads are to be 

 made round and smooth, so that they do 

 not catch on stones or weeds, and in size,, 

 are to be regulated according to the nature 

 of the fishing, and are to be only "so 

 heavy that the least pluck of the fish " 

 pulls the float down. 



The instructions for making floats have 

 never been improved upon ; indeed, only 

 the other day one of the best roach 

 anglers living * sent me some floats of his 

 own make which seem to me to be formed 

 exactly on the lines laid down by Dame 

 Juliana. She says : 



" Take a good cork which is clean 



* Mr. E. J. Walker, of the Piscatorial Society. 



