24 FLY-FISHING. 



below the wheel-line, and the smaller swivel about the 

 middle of the casting-line. The largest swivel should 

 be two inches in length, and proportionably stout. 



Your rod for this fishing should not be more than 

 three yards and a half long, with a strong stiff top, 

 and very large rings ; and the rod should consist of 

 two pieces only, spliced, as the sea-water would soon 

 destroy a rod with ferrules. Your lines should be of 

 hemp, some of them very stout, for rough weather, 

 and finer ones for calm weather. The manner of 

 using your rod when under an easy breeze, is this : 

 you dip about half a yard of the top of the rod in the 

 water, holding the rod perpendicularly, and when you 

 feel a fish strike, you immediately reverse your rod 

 and play your fish as on any other occasion. Of the 

 stained hackles, I think the dark orange were deci- 

 dedly the best. 



Those who are fond of hand-line fishing, or set- 

 ting the spillet, which consists of a long line with 100 

 or 200 hooks attached, and which, after having baited 

 and set, you leave for some hours, will find the fol- 

 lowing baits very good : 



Lug-worm ; for cod, haddock, ling, fluke, bream, 

 tamlin, conger, sole, whiting, flounders, dabs, &c. 



