FISHING KITS AND 

 EQUIPMENT 



CHAPTER I 

 THE PRELIMINARY CAST 



And let us buy for the days of spring 

 While yet the north winds blow! 



For half the joy of the trip, my boy f 

 Is getting your traps to go. 



The Tent Dwellers. 



ANGLERS, so far as the tackle question is con- 

 cerned, may be divided into two classes; 

 those who make their own rods, flies and cer- 

 tain other items of the fishing kit, and those who 

 from lack of mechanical ability or time, or perhaps in- 

 clination, buy their tackle. That this latter class is 

 very greatly in the majority goes without saying; and 

 it is equally certain that a large part of the tackle 

 bought is entirely unsuited, for various reasons, to the 

 purpose for which it was intended. The man who is 

 a beginner at any form of angling and goes to the 



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