THE BRITISH ANGLER'S LEXICON. 8l 



Detached Bodies are obtained, in forming some 

 sorts of artificial flies, by fastening in with the arming a few 

 hog's bristles or a couple of small clippings of fine gut, 

 letting these rise away at a slight angle from the body of 

 the hook, and instead of finishing off the body of the fly 

 to the bend of the hook in the ordinary manner, the body is 

 made on these bristles and carried up to form a taper body 

 and tail. These detached body flies are intended to 

 represent insects which may be seen raising their bodies up 

 from the surface of the water. Some of these bodies are 

 made of cork, stained or ringed, others of indiarubber, but 

 mostly from proper coloured silks. 



Disg'OPg'eP is made from bone, wood, or metal. It is 

 shaped like a long needle, with a cleft at one end and an 

 eye to attach it by a string to a button at the other. The 

 disgorger is used to push back and thus release a hook 

 which may have been taken far down the gullet of a fish. 

 It is seldom used, except in the case of taking a hook out of 

 a pike's throat. It is dangerous to put the fingers into 

 this fish's mouth, as its teeth inflict nasty wounds, which, if 

 received, are not easily healed. The disgorger can be 

 carried in the fly book, or attached by a string to the lid of 

 the fishing basket. A new one is now made of brass, eight 

 or nine inches long, with a groove at one end to slide along 

 the trace until it reaches the hook. There is also an 

 excellent disgorger made like a pair of scissors, which will 

 extricate any hook in the throat of a fish. 



Double Brazing?, a term used when the male ferrule 

 of a rod is bound entirely with brass or other metal. 



Drawn Gut is the ordinary silkworm gut scraped 

 down by a certain process of drawing it through minute 

 holes in a steel plate, which renders it very thin, but 



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