5 2 SALMON AND TROUT. 



This naturally applies to any kind of line, dressed or un- 

 dressed. 



The art of dressing a line, whether for trolling or fly fishing, 

 is in itself a speciality, and one which few amateurs will pro- 

 bably find it worth taking the trouble to practise for them- 

 selves, but in case they should desire to become their own line 



BRAIDED SILK LINES DRESSED. 



dressers, they are advised to try the receipt given by Major 

 Traherne, as the result of his experience on the best mode of 

 dressing silk lines for fly fishing, in his article on fishing for 

 salmon with the fly. 



Reels, The Fisheries Exhibition of 1883 was prolific in new 

 reels, many of which it must be confessed were not only highly 

 ingenious as inventions, but really excellent in their adaptation 

 to different sorts of fishing. 



Of these new reels I propose briefly to describe the six 

 principal, with their uses. Of these four have been patented, 

 and I will give their inventors preference, merely observing 

 that, with the exception of the reel exhibited by Messrs. Watson, 

 the whole of the reels referred to are applicable rather to salmon 

 or trolling lines and other heavy fishing than to single-handed 

 trout rods. As Mr. Malloch has two patents I will begin with 

 his 



Malloch's ' Sun and Planet ' reel a powerful reel, of the 

 ordinary shape in regard to the make and external appearance ; 

 the right-hand plate being of metal and the opposite side of 



