CHAPTER X 



The necessities of the fisherman The rod Length Pliability 

 Weight and action of the rod Makers and makers of rods 

 The fly fisherman's knife Wading and waders Basket creels 

 and fishing bags Salmon and trout lines The oil-bottle 

 The salmon and trout reel makers Spinning The fly hook 

 The cast Trout and salmon flies Fly books Muscatol 

 Binoculars Gear-case Gaff The landing-net Waterproofs 

 Fisherman's spectacles The fly-net and fisherman's lamp. 



THE NECESSITIES OF THE FISHERMAN 



I HESITATED about writing this chapter at all. It is 

 certainly of the utmost importance to a beginner, and 

 useful often to an old hand, to get good appliances for 

 his art or craft, and to know where to go for them. In 

 giving such information, however, an author lays him- 

 self open to suspicion of self-interest, and I am not 

 anxious to incur the risk of this, especially as one or 

 two of the appliances I recommend are my own inven- 

 tion. 



But since the various friends I have consulted all 

 advise me to include the chapter, I do so, and hope 

 the reader will believe it is done only in his interest, 

 and in the desire to make the book complete. 



I trust I may, therefore, be regarded as a friend 

 worthy of thanks for mentioning a few special articles 



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