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colour and size in different counties : therefore I 

 would advise him to pursue a plan, that he will 

 find very agreeable and pleasant, and very much 

 increase his pastime ; which is to make a selec- 

 tion of the natural flies he means to imitate, 

 for artificial fly fishing, in the different counties 

 he angles in, and put them into a glass case for 

 preservation ; by which means, he will always 

 be able to suit the fly for the water he fishes 

 in ; and likewise let him take the exact 

 time, that each fly kills best in, as the same 

 will be taken much sooner, or later, on one 

 river, than another; nay, even the fly which was 

 taken on its peculiar water one year in April, 

 will perhaps not be on the next, till the middle of 

 May : according to the backwardness or forwardness 

 of the season. 



I believe that this is the first angling treatise to 

 refer to the use of the multiplying winch : " Your fly 

 line should be about thirty yards long, and wound on 

 a small brass multiplying winch which is to be placed 

 on the butt of your rod." From the way in which 

 the winch is referred to, without any description, it 

 is probable that it had then been in use for some 

 time and was not a new and unknown form of tackle : 

 in this connection the following note from Mr 

 Marston's book, Walton and the Earlier Fishing 

 Writers, is of interest. In the note referred to, Mr 

 Marston states that he is able "to correct an 

 American angling writer, Mr A. Nelson Cheney, who, 

 in one of his pleasant angling notes, in Forest and 

 Stream, January 1893, claims that the multiplier reel 

 was invented in America about the year 1820. In 



