THE ANGLER'S GUIDE. 



CHAP. XXIL 



RODS AND LINES. 



IN respect to fly rods, I believe the London 

 tackle-makers can furnish as good as any that 

 are made for sale, though I know some gen- 

 tlemen are partial to those manufactured in 

 the North and West parts of England. I have 

 purchased at Exeter, for fishing in the river 

 Ex, the Tamar, and other Trout streams in 

 Devonshire, in compliance with the request of 

 some friends who reside in those parts, but I 

 never experienced any advantage in using 

 them over what I carried with me from the 

 metropolis. 



Fly rods are made of bamboo, cane, hick- 

 ery, hazel, &c. the common hazel rod may be 

 used by the young angler, during his novici- 

 ate, to practise throwing a fly on land, in a 



