THE ANGLER'S GUIDE. 



CHAP. I. 



CHOICE OF TACKLE, &C. 



AN the following treatise it is not my in- 

 tention to take up the time of my readers by 

 instructing them how to make fish-ponds, 

 angle-rods, floats, or lines, conceiving that 

 such descriptions tend only to perplex and 

 confuse the young angler; but shall direct 

 him in the choice of every necessary article 

 used in angling, which may at all times be 

 purchased at the principal fishing-tackle 

 shops in London. 



The angle-rod is a material article in the 

 angler's catalogue, therefore much care should 

 be taken to procure a good one : the shops 

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