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HARDY'S ' HOLD mil' BOBS UNO TUBULE 



ARE BEYOND COMPETITION !! 



Highest Awards in the World. 35 Medals. 



THE FIELD says: "They have left all competitors hopelessly behind. Hardy's rods in these 

 days, like the good wines in the proverb, need no bush." 



THE FISHING GAZETTE says: "Messrs. Hardy are the largest manufacturers of fishing rods 

 and tackle in the world." 



THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN (Notice of the Great Fisheries Exhibition, London) says: "The 

 first place may be claimed for the absolutely perfect specimens of fly-tying sent by Messrs. Hardy 

 Brothers, of Alnwick. They are undoubtedly the gems of the Exhibition." 



THE FIELD says : " English salmon rods remain unbeaten in the world for practical sport. During 

 the last two seasons, Mr. Burnett, of the Fly-fishers' Club, killed 721 salmon and grilse, weighing 

 7,210 lb., with one steel-centred cane-built rod, made by HARDY, of Alnwick. We quote this as 

 an example of what an English rod can do." 



Castle Martyr, March 14^, 1897. 



"SiRS, I have used the rods you made for me since 1890, I consider them all perfect for their 

 different purposes. They have done hard work, and a lot of it, and are one and all as perfect as when 

 they left your hands. As a proof of how well they wear, I do not think one of the spare tops has 

 ever been used." SHANNON. 



Tortworth Court. Chipping Norton. 



"Superior to any others which I have been in "I have never had a breakage, although : my 



the habit of using." DUCIE. trout rods have been worked hard." MORETON. 



Ravensworth Castle. Gayton Hall. 



" Goods and materials of excellent quality." " Best casting rods that I have ever handled." 



RAVENSWORTH. ROMNEV. 



Cheltenham, April zgth, 1897. 



"DEAR SIRS, I have the greatest pleasure in saying that the ' Houghton' rod was everything 

 that could be desired in India. I did a good deal of fishing with this rod on the river Nerbudda, 

 C.I., for mahseer and other Indian fish, and although the rod was severely tried, it never failed me. 

 It stood successfully the intense heat and the rains which tries a rod very considerably indeed. I can 

 only add that it was always a perfect pleasure to use it, a long or a short cast being made with equal 

 facility." G. M. SWINEY, Lieut. 



Rajouri Kashmir, September yd, 1894. 



"Please send me to Jubbulpore, C.P., India, doz. 2 inch improved 'Halcyon' Spinner; 3 doz. 

 ii inch ditto ; 3 doz. ii inch ditto. I find these a most killing bait for mahseer. The gut you send 

 me is wonderful. The 14 ft. rod I got through your London house also is excellent for medium and 

 large mahseer."-r-LANCELOT GRAHAM, Capt. R.A. 



118 LB. TARPON KILLED ON A 14 FT. HARDV FLY ROD. 



Florida, U.S.A., March zgth, 1896. 



" I have landed a tarpon weighing 118 lb. on the Cholmondeley Pennell 14 ft. rod I purchased from 

 you some years ago. I have killed fish in many countries with this rod, and it has never been seen to 

 or repaired in any way. The tarpon was on for an hour and five minutes, and the rod was bent nearly 

 double all this time, but is as straight as ever after this severe test." C.C.D. 



IMPORTANT. If you want the best of everything in Cane-Built, Cane-Built Steel- 

 Centre, Greenheart, &e., Rods, Reels, Flies, Tackle, &e., write us; it 



will pay you. Remember the " Best " is always the Cheapest. 

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