MODERN 



PRACTICAL ANGLER. 



PART I.— TACKLE. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



We live in times in which, as we are constantly being 

 told, the "schoolmaster is abroad," and certainly the 

 dwellers in what the late Mr. Hood described as the 

 " Eely-Places" have come in for their full share of educa- 

 tional advantages. No well-informed Pike or Trout is 

 now to be ensnared by the simple devices which proved 

 fatal to his progenitors in the good old days of innocence 

 and Izaak Walton : and were we to sally forth with the 

 gear bequeathed to us by our great-grandfathers of 

 lamented memory we should expect to see the whole 

 finny tribe rise up to repel with scorn the insult offered 

 to their understanding. Owing doubtless to the rapidly 

 increasing popularity of fishing of late years, there are 



