TACKLE AND FISHING GEAR. 



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Until the Fisheries Exhibition either called forth, or called 

 into public notice, these inventions, joint fastenings may be 

 said, so far as any general adoption of them is concerned, to be 

 comprised in three descriptions only. 

 The first, the ordinary ferrule joint, in 

 which one joint slips into the other 

 and it may be added, out of it again with 

 considerable regularity at inauspicious 

 moments ; secondly, the spliced joint ; 

 and, thirdly, the screw fastening, pecu- 

 liar, so far as I am aware, to the rods 

 turned out by some Irish makers. 



I have one of the last named still 

 in my possession made for me by 

 Martin Kelly, of Dublin, I am afraid 

 to say how many but certainly fifteen 

 or twenty years ago, which has seen 

 some service in its day and is still fit to 

 take the field. I therefore speak of 

 this fastening with respect. It had its 

 drawbacks, however. Perhaps owing 

 to the necessity of the case, or perhaps 

 to the incomplete application of me- 

 chanical knowledge, or a little of both, 

 the ferrules which were attached to the 

 tipper joint and slipped down from 

 above in the manner shown in fig. i, 

 and subsequently screwed into the posi- 

 tion shown in fig. 2, had an awkward 

 habit of breaking at the point where 

 they were attached by a screw or rivet 

 to the upper joint. Consequently, I 

 need not say that since I have become 

 its owner that single-handed three-joint 

 trout rod of about eleven feet, has paid several enforced visits 

 to Dublin for purposes of reparation. 



FIG. I. FIG. 2. 



IRISH JOINT. 



