CHAPTER V. 



RODS WADING CREELS AND FISHING ^BAGS LINES HOOKS CASTS FLIES 

 BINOCULARS LANDING NETS WATERPROOFS SPECTACLES ROD MENDING 

 KIT. 



THE FISHING NECESSITIES OF THE TROUT FISHER. 



I WISH to draw the attention of my readers to this particular 

 chapter, and to the sporting necessities mentioned therein, 

 for the following reasons : 



When a good book, a good play, a good cigar, etc., is dis- 

 covered and enjoyed owing to the advice of a friend, such an 

 introduction cannot fail to elicit one's gratitude. I trust I may, 

 therefore, be regarded as a friend worthy of thanks for mentioning 

 a few special articles and certain patents or makes of those 

 fishing articles, most of which they will of necessity require. 



My angling friends and the dealers in the retail fishing- 

 tackle trade have not only urged the writing of this book, 

 and suggested the importance of producing it at a popular 

 price, but the latter have wished to advertise in the work, 

 which they are good enough to consider will be recognised 

 as a standard of its kind. The advertisers, therefore, are 

 those firms with which I have been in the habit of dealing, 

 and whose goods are from my own personal knowledge 

 thoroughly trustworthy and useful. It must not be supposed, 



D.F. 



