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CHAPTEK III. 



MANNER OF FISHING FOR TROUT AND GRAYLING. 



" With rod and line I sued the sport 

 Which that sweet season gave." 



WOKDSWORTH. 



WHEN the rod is put together, the rings upon it 

 should fall into a line with each other. The 

 reel containing the line is sometimes attached 

 to a belt round the body, but generally to the 

 rod at the distance of ten to fourteen inches 

 from the end of the butt, (i.e.) that place where 

 it produces a small and pleasant degree of coun- 

 terbalance to the upper end of the rod. 1 The 

 fine end of the line with a loop receives the foot 

 line with a draw- knot, and to the fine end of the 

 foot line is attached a fly or palmer, which is 

 called the Stretcher. Other flies, which are 

 made fast to the foot line, are called Droppers, 

 two of which are generally sufficient. The first 

 dropper is placed at about one yard and a quar- 

 ter distant from the stretcher, the second about 

 a yard from the first, each upon a piece of gut 

 about four inches long. And the knots used 



1 Some of the best rod makers now place it quite at the end, and 

 my practice seems to prove that this is the best position for it. 



