1)1 VISION X I I. 



ANGLING. 



ANOtTXr. APPARATrS; Rons; LINES; hooks; AKTIKICIAL FLIES; BAITS FOR ANOLINO ; THE RALMOR ^ 

 THE COMMON KlVini TKolT; THE (JKKAT LAKE TK'iUT; THE «RAYI.IN<i; THE I'IKK FAMILY; THB 

 CAHl' FAMILY ; THE COMMON CARP ; THE BREAM ; THE TENCH ; THE BAKIIEL ; THE (Hill ; THE UA<'E ; 

 THE ROACH; THE BLEAK; THE GUDOEON J THE MINNOW; THE LOACH; THE EEL FAMILY; THB 

 COMMON EEL ; THE PERCH ; CONCLUSION. 



I with fine j)oint9, small pliers, wax and needles, 



ANGLING APPARATUS. I ^3 aH these are necessary to his thoroUL;h 



An angler, to be well equipped, requires to equipment for practising his art with pleasure, 



carry many things about him. The most i 



. . • RODS 



necessary articles consist of rods, lines, reels, 



hooks, baskets, and landing-nets. Besides Numerous are the kinds of rods which have 



these, he must have a stock of different kinds been invented for angling; but, in pureliasing 



of feathers, such as those which are denomi- ! this instrument, the nature of the fishing 



nated hackles, and which are taken from the | intended to be pursued should enter first 



necks and backs of common poultry, as well as into consideration. To show the necessity of 



from the wings of woodcocks, rails, snipes, 

 plovers, grouse, partridges, chicks, and others. 

 He must also carry with him some of the furs 

 of animals. The most useful of these are 

 such as are taken from squirrels, hares, mar- 

 tins, moles, mice, and water-rats. The hackles 

 which anglers hold in highest favour are the 

 duns; but since the introduction of Spanish 

 poultry, black hackles have come into use. 

 Christmas is the most suitable time to pluck 

 the hackles from their owners ; but, inde. 

 pendent of these, the feathers of the peacock, 

 and of other showy birds, are sometimes useful. 

 The sea-trout and the salmon are attracted by 



this, we may mention that there is a special 

 kind of rod for fly-fishing, bottom-fishins:, and 

 a trolling-rod ; there are also the single and 

 double-handed rod, the bag-rod, the cane and 

 the wood, and the walking-stick rod, with a 

 great many more smaller varieties. The 

 general rod, however, is the most convenient 

 for the young practitioner, or for use when 

 travelling in localities where there is no cer- 

 tainty as to the sort of fisli tliat may be taken. 

 According to Colonel Hanker, a trout rod 

 should be about twelve feet tliree inches 

 long, and about fourteen ounces in weight. 

 It must not be top-heavy, nor must it have 



the gaudy plumage of the parrot, and those too much play in the lower p;irt ; but the play 

 of other tropical birds, deeming them, under | should be just in proportion to the gradual 

 the deceptive forms of flies, no doubt, exotic ; tapering, by which there will be very little 

 morsels of great delicacy. Silks are ai.other I spring till after about the third foot of its 

 necessary with which the angler cannot dis- length. It is difllcult to determine the exact 

 pense. The first of these is what is called degree of pliancy which a fly-rod should have ; 

 Barber's silk, which is used double for splicing but a stiff rod is worse than a pliant one, and 

 the top-pieces of rods ; the second is not so never can be used advantngeously. The fly- 

 strong, its use being to fasten on the rings fishers, both of Scotland and Ireland, use more 

 through which the line on the reel runs; the flexible rods than those of England ; and many 

 third consists of fine nettinir silk for dressing of the sportsmen of these countries are fan.ons 

 flies and whipping hooks. Besides these the for their piscatory feats. Christopher North 

 auo-ler should carrv with him a pair of scissors is one example. 



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