212 FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS. 



bamboo, and wound at intervals of six inches throughout its 

 length with waxed silk lashings. Of course the rings are 

 graduated in number to the length of the rod. 



The angler, on visiting Canada for salmon-fishing, should be 

 armed with two rods, or an extra rod besides his bamboo, but 

 should expect to fish with the bamboo. I am partial to a 

 three-jointed rod over a four-jointer ; but either of them may 

 be balanced well. I am also in favor of the lower joint being 

 ferruled, and the others fastened with the " modern splice" of 

 bands at each end of the splice. The bamboo rod should be 

 from nineteen to twenty-one feet long, ^For a second rod, I 

 should recommend one rather stiifer than the bamboo, in- 

 tended, if necessary, for angling from a boat. It should be 

 from sixteen to nineteen feet long, and the hickory ones made 

 by Martin Kelly, of Dublin, are preferable to any that I have 

 seen except the split bamboo. The Castle Connell rods are 

 rather top-heavy, and approximately double-acting, with a 

 kick in the butt which nearly upsets a person when wading in 

 a three-feet-deep rapid water. Mr. Johnson, of Boston, makes 

 an excellent salmon-rod, and so does Robert Welch, of New 

 York. I suppose that Prit chard Brothers might make a good 

 salmon-rod, as they are old salmon-fishers.- An excellent sal- 

 mon-rod is made with hickory butt, next joint of ash, a third 

 of lancewood, and top of split bamboo ; all of the same pat- 

 tern as a Long Island trout-rod, only heavier and longer. 

 The butt should be ferruled, and the other two joints spliced. 



2 CLICK REELS. Each of these should be large enough to 

 carry a hundred and fifty yards of English salmon-line ; that 

 is, a silk, or silk and hair braided line, tapering, and protected 

 by varnish from becoming water-soaked. Good salmon-reels 

 are only to be procured at our best fishing-tackle establish- 

 ments, and it is worse than love's labor lost to use any other. 



1 spare line for the reels. 



6 casting-lines of twelve feet in length each, made of stained 

 gut, one fourth three-ply at the upper end, one fourth two- 

 ply next, both twisted, and six feet of single gut. Let the 



