102 SALMON AND TROUT. 



bably very often have to carry his fish himself. For this pur- 

 pose bags and baskets ' many and great ' are sold at the tackle 



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THE FREKE BAG. 



A convenient-sized. Freke bag for the ordinary purposes of the trout 

 fisher is about i foot 7 inches wide by, say, 14 inches deep. The 

 weight in this size should not exceed i Ib. 10 oz. The shoulder 

 strap or rather webbing, for leather' soddens' should be 2 inches 

 wide, and in larger sizes 2^ or 3 inches. A ' Carry-all ' basket (see 

 page 104) of something like corresponding capacity weighs 3 Ibs. 



shops, but that they are most of them defective in some points 

 in which they might have been perfected, goes without saying. 

 In fact, as regards the bags (which for bank-fishing purposes are 

 perhaps preferable), I find them mostly to suffer the dis- 

 ability of coming to pieces if not the first time they had a 

 good catch to carry, at any rate, after, say, a few days or weeks 

 of real hard wear and tear ; others, again, let the slime and drip- 

 pings ooze through. After trying various patterns, including one 

 of my own, figured in the first edition, I am disposed to think 

 that for combined strength and simplicity, and taking one day's 

 fishing with another, nothing beats,- or perhaps equals, the 

 4 Freke bag,' as it is called, which is, or should be, made double. 



