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advantages, but in the former case the gut must be thickened 

 by lapping where it passes through the minnow so as to fit close. 

 Another very pretty minnow, already referred to, the in- 

 vention, I am told, of the late Mr. Garnett, is made entirely of 

 quill (ride cut), thus presenting a more transparent effect in 

 the water, and I have read accounts of remarkable success 

 that has been obtained with it. 



THE QUILL MINNOW. 



OGDEN'S PREMIER SPINNER. 



There is also Hardy's 'Halcyon spinner' which is said to have 

 made a reputation on the Border streams ; and the ' Premier 

 spinner,' the invention and patent of Mr. Jas. Ogden, of 

 Cheltenham, which, judging by its ' rig ' and spiral shape (ride 

 cut), calculated to produce a glittering appearance in the water, 

 ought to be exceedingly effective. Mr. Thomas Westwood, 

 the well-known bibliophile, poet, and fisherman, writes to 

 me in a letter : ' I tried the other day, with great success, a 



