56 ANGLER'S TACKLE AND EQUIPMENT. 



rank by number, and stands at the foot of the salmon 

 sizes as No. 9. Above it, follow 8, 1, 6, 5, and 4, the 

 last being the largest size manufactured for salmon 

 fishing. All the numbers have their half or intervening 

 sizes. The Redditch hooks range as follows : Salmon 

 sizes from 1 to 7 ; trouting descriptions from 7 down 

 to 16, the smallest. 



I would recommend the purchaser of hooks, in any 

 quantity, always to test them, more especially if they 

 are badly dressed. This is easily done, by pressing the 

 point into a piece of wood, and exerting a due degree of 

 strength on the bend, and other portions of the wire, 

 the shank of the hook being firmly held betwixt the 

 thumb and forefinger. Nothing can be more annoying 

 to the angler, than to find himself, on a fishing excur- 

 sion, equipped with an assortment of worthless wire, 

 and yet, as regards trouting flies, how frequently this 

 occurs. I think, however, the hooks of Adlington and 

 of Philips may be safely commended, in their separate 

 styles of manufacture, as among the best in the market. 

 I append a delineation illustrative of their shapes and 

 sizes. 



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VARNISH. No angler, as part of his equipment, 

 should neglect having a small phial containing spirit 



