CHAPTER VIII 

 Tackle 



ANGLERS have sought out many inventions in 

 tackle. Life is not long enough for us to be 

 able to use more than a small portion of these, 

 and it seems to me that the object of writing 

 about tackle to-day should be to lessen and not 

 to increase the amount, which we think it 

 necessary to carry with us. This is what strikes 

 me when I reflect upon the enormous variety of 

 flies described in books and displayed in tackle 

 shops ; and upon the consequent difficulty of 

 making a selection for the outfit for an angling 

 holiday : one cannot buy up the whole stock of 



