INTRODUCTORY. 



TO ANGLERS. 

 GENTLEMEN, 



This season we have, at one stroke, increased our Catalogue of 

 Angling requisites to near upon double its former size. Many de- 

 scriptions of improved articles and several important new inventions will 

 be found in its pages ; these are supplemented with many specialities, 

 combining best quality of skill in construction and of material with the 

 most strict economy in cost of production. Of these may be especially 

 mentioned Rods and Reels. 



The new and enlarged buildings recently opened by us will enable a 

 still more prompt and efficient attention to be extended to all home and 

 foreign orders large and small that may be entrusted to us during the 

 ensuing season. 



As the production of angling requisites occupies the whole of our 

 attention, &c., we have an immense advantage possessed by few, if any, 

 equally large producers of angling requisites. 



Having now increased facilities for the production of refined and 

 improved angling necessities, we shall be enabled to construct to order 

 and description customers' own ideas, still more accurate in detail, when 

 differing from articles already stocked. 



Our specialities in Rods, Reels, Lines, and in Fly, Mid-water, and 

 Bottom Tackle, generally need no commendation. Steel-centred Rods, 

 Waterproof Silk, and the Acme Metal-centred Lines, centre winches, 

 &c., have now acquired world-wide fame, being extensively used almost 

 wherever a fly is thrown or a bait is spun. 



The success of these latest developments in the angler's implements 

 has, we are reluctantly compelled to add, induced unscrupulous traders 

 and makers to victimise the unsuspecting with numerous more or less 

 unworthy imitations, in which durability, utility, and quality of material 

 and workmanship is sacrificed for the sake of a dishonest profit. To 

 ensure satisfaction the intending purchaser will do well to invest in the 

 original, true, and reliable articles. 



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