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field, or any other convenient place, which 

 practice I should recommend before he casts 

 his bait on the water. The length of a rod for 

 fly fishing should be from fifteen to eighteen 

 feet long. 



LINES 



are manufactured of hair, &c. twisted, mixed, 

 and plaited, of various lengths and strengths 

 purposely for fly fishing, some exceedingly fine 

 and long, tapering gradually to the end, and 

 to the length of forty yards : a line should not 

 be less than thirty yards. A yard or two of 

 fine gut, to which the hooks are fastened on, 

 is added to the line, and called the bottom. 



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