CHAPTER X 

 GENERAL SWEET-WATER TACKLE 



THE greater part of fresh-water fishing tackle 

 is made for the purposes already discussed; 

 namely fly-fishing for trout and casting 

 for bass. Tackle selection for either of these angling 

 methods must necessarily be careful, and if the outfit 

 is to be exactly suited to the required purpose there is 

 little room for choice between this rod or that one or, 

 say, between two styles of reels the tackle is either 

 suitable or proves very plainly unsuitable. But, bar- 

 ring bass fly-tackle and tackle for salmon fishing, the 

 latter, of course, with the fly, it is not so very easy to 

 draw a hard and fast line between what is right or the 

 contrary for the several other sorts of fishing. In 

 various forms of still-fishing and trolling all sorts and 

 condition of rods, reels and other tackle are used ef- 

 fectively; consequently, the suggestions here offered 

 are not to be taken as positive advice against the use 

 of other and somewhat different tackle than that men- 

 tioned herein. 



As regards bait-fishing for trout and the proper rod 

 to use for the sport, I think that the very best advice 



