246 Fly-rods and Fly-tackle. 



case to roughen the surfaces you propose to unite, or to 

 score them obliquely and in a criss-cross manner, thus: 



Fig. 76. A, joint; , splice, scored. 



But these scores should be very oblique and very shallow, 

 or you may divide and so lose the strength of some of the 

 fibres. The purpose is to give a better hold to whatever 

 adhesive substance you use to unite the parts. 



NOVICE. It has occurred to me that the method you 

 showed me this morning is not applicable to a break 

 close to a ferrule, for there is then nothing to form one 

 part of the splice from. What course should then be 

 followed? 



ANGLER. This is either one of the most difficult, or one 

 of the simplest of emergent repairs, according to the 

 construction of the rod. If the rod is united by simple 

 ferrules without dowels, and if the ferrules are merely 

 cemented in place instead of fastened by a pin, then the 

 repair is a trifling matter. And after balancing all I 

 have heard or can imagine on all sides of the question, I 

 cannot but think that both the dowel and the fastening 

 pin should be excluded from fly-rods. I have been driven 

 to this conclusion not merely because of difficulty of re- 

 pair, but by other considerations of equal or even greater 

 force, into the discussion of which we will not enter now. 



When the rod gives away at the ferrule, the break is 

 always short across. If you have no dowels to consider, 

 trim the broken end .square with your knife, warm the 

 ferrule and push out the broken portion, and replace the 

 ferrule on the joint, using some of your cobbler's wax to 



