122 CASTING TACKLE AND METHODS 



serving at a pinch. Some years ago a friend sent 

 me a beautiful tanned fawn skin, as soft and fine as 

 shammy; from it we made many a reel-bag, as well 

 as a number of other articles well worth while. 



The last word has not been said regarding tackle- 

 boxes, neither has the perfect box been produced. 

 Nearly every bait-caster with time and opportunity 

 has tried his hand at building a box, and as a result 

 we have seen boxes varying in size from little hand 

 cases up to veritable trunks. Every angler is wedded 

 to his own ideas, thinks he has, or can produce the 

 perfect receptacle for plugs, reels and tools. I have 

 seen bait-casters clambering into a boat toting a 

 tackle-box the size of a double suit case, in which 

 reposed plugs without number, reels, tools, lines, re- 

 volvers, in fact anything a fisherman might need in 

 his wildest moments, sometimes even a compartment 

 for a flask of "liquid bait." u The game is not worth 

 the candle." Such a case is all right for the house 

 and camp, but to my mind is out of place in a boat. 

 Oh, we need a small repair-kit of course, and a fair 

 selection of lures; most decidedly we do not need a 

 whole hardware store and the strange results of the 

 wild imaginings of the tackle-maker. (See the next 

 chapter on repair outfits.) There is nothing quite 

 so elegant as the sole-leather box of course, but 

 owing to its cost we are going to pass it with this 

 word, for we are more interested in shape and size, 

 I take it, than we are in material. If the rodster can 





