128 CASTING TACKLE AND METHODS 



likes to potter with tools, building up an individual 

 outfit to suit himself; if so I have some suggestions 

 and a wee bit of advice to offer. There are a few 

 tools and articles which are essential, absolutely in- 

 dispensable, and should have place in the angler's 

 tackle-box, or better, coat-pocket; while there are 

 certain bulky articles, convenient but not actual re- 

 quisites, which may be placed in the larger tackle- 

 boxes. Narrowed down, then, we have two classes 

 of tools and articles indispensables and eonvenien- 

 cies. And it may be well for me to so classify the 

 two groups, calling the first the "Pocket Outfit," and 

 the second the "Tackle-box Kit." 



Nine out of ten anglers do not like to be over- 

 loaded with paraphernalia, the tenth man is willing 

 to tote a tackle-box as large as a Saratoga trunk. 

 Now I am not saying that the Saratoga trunk tackle- 

 box is not a convenience and delight; it is both; but 

 the average man can not bother with a thing so un- 

 wieldy, if he has the where-with-all to procure it. By 

 the same token a man can construct a pocket-kit, 

 elaborate and bulky, containing, beside the essen- 

 tials, what we may term repair felicities. However, 

 we are now interested in the absolute essentials, 

 those tools which we may need any day, or a num- 

 ber of times a day. One word of caution, in your 

 anxiety to eliminate the superfluous, do not dispense 

 with the essential article. 



The following should be found in the pocket-kit 



