" The Anglers Equipment" 141 



not longer. They are as delicate as they 

 are powerful in good hands, of course. As 

 for the " style " of a rod, every man seems 

 to have his peculiar fancy. Stewart liked 

 a stiff rod for wet-fly fishing, whilst some 

 anglers like a rod of the Castle-Connell 

 type. Others, again, prefer one which holds 

 no sort of comparison with either of these 

 rods. The rod which may suit A. may not 

 necessarily suit B. Nothing that the rod- 

 maker can do will ever get rid of one 

 difficulty ; namely, the personal element. 



Messrs. Forrest & Sons some years ago 

 paid me the compliment of naming " The 

 Tod Eod," after one built by the firm, and 

 with which I had done great execution. I 

 like it myself immensely, but, unless it suits 

 the hand of the fly-fisher, I am not so 

 foolish as to think that it will prove accep- 

 table. There are many other excellent 

 rod-makers. I name Messrs. Turnbull & 

 Co., of 60, Princes Street, Edinburgh, for 

 one firm. Mr. Turnbull, senior, served his 

 apprenticeship with old Mr. Forrest, of 

 Kelso, and he who has been Us apprentice, 

 is quite sure to have been well and carefully 

 trained. He was afterwards, for years, 

 manager to my old friend, the late Mrs. 

 Hogg, of Princes Street, Edinburgh, my 



