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indiarubber bags, which are attached by 

 straps to the outside and front of the creel. 

 These are very handy, and are to be recom- 

 mended accordingly, since they do not pre- 

 vent the angler filling his creel with trout, 

 if he happens to be in luck's way, which I 

 trust he will often be. 



I am no faddist in fishing-gear, and, if 

 I have invented a few things, I have proved 

 them, up to the hilt, to be of real practical 

 utility to myself, long before I have ventured 

 to give them to the angling world. I may 

 add that I have never patented an inven- 

 tion, and that any one is at liberty to make 

 use of mine. It is always well to avoid 

 rushing into print till one's invention has 

 been tested a thing young fishermen 

 should remember. 



For shoulder strap, the usual one made 

 of leather and webbing is as good as any- 

 thing I know. I need hardly add that I 

 always use attached to it, my other inven- 

 tion, "Tod's safety buckle." * 



A description of my buckle appeared 

 in the Fishing Gazette, many years ago, and 

 also in the number for December 6, 1902, 

 in the reprint of a paper which I read 

 before the members of the Trout Anglers' 

 Club, Edinburgh, in January of that year. 



