CHAP. xx. Hooks Drawing. 279 



The sizes of swivels are as follows : 



No. i/o single swivel is ff of an inch long. 



T 19 



55 55 16 55 J> 



~ 55 55 T6" 55 >5 



J 11 11 11 11 



4 55 55 1% 55 55 



5 55 55 ~HF 55 )) 



6 -i 2 



55 55 16 55 )t 



7 55 11 Te" J5 1) 



8 10. 



55 55 16 '5 



9 55 55 T1F 55 

 ^ '5 55 Tli 55 



The double swivels, being made of two swivels linked together, 

 are nearly double these lengths, and are simply numbered from i/o 

 to 9. The size most convenient for Mahseer is, in my opinion, No. 5. 



Swivels : their Position. Of course the swivel does most service 

 close up to the origo mati, the revolving object. With a spoon you can 

 afford to have a double swivel close up to it, and it is best there. 

 But with a dead fish, which you often spin very slowly, it would 

 show too much, and a single swivel is as much as I like to have 

 there, the rest being on the spinning trace. For this reason I have 

 discarded the second black swivel generally placed on the Coxon 

 spinner. 



My idea is that the action of rust is more rapid in a tropical country 

 than in England ; at any rate it is much more provoking and remarked 

 in a country where you cannot replenish for want of a tackle shop, and 

 consequently it should be the better provided against. 



Hooks Drawing. Hooks draw dreadfully in India, from the 

 great heat drying up and shrinking the gut, as well as slackening the 

 silk tying, and making the wax as brittle as resin. Every fisher- 

 man in India should be ready to re-tie his hooks afresh after any 

 length of time ; and every tackle-maker should take precautions in 

 making up Indian tackle, which he does not condescend to do with 

 English tackle. Two hundred years ago, careful old Izaak Walton 

 advised one to singe the end of the gut before tying a fly, and this 

 should always be done with trout flies for Indian use. It is neglected 

 because flies are tied in the daylight, when a candle is not at hand, and 

 because it is considered unnecessary. But for India it is necessary, 



