FISHING KITS AND 

 EQUIPMENT 



CHAPTER I 

 THE PRELIMINARY CAST 



And let us buy for the days of spring 

 While yet the north winds blow! 



For half the joy of the trip, my boy, 

 Is getting your traps to go. 



The Tent Dwellers. 



ANGLERS, so far as the tackle question is con- 

 cerned, may be divided into two classes; 

 those who make their own rods, flies and cer- 

 tain other items of the fishing kit, and those who 

 from lack of mechanical ability or time, or perhaps in- 

 clination, buy their tackle. That this latter class is 

 very greatly in the majority goes without saying; and 

 it is equally certain that a large part of the tackle 

 bought is entirely unsuited, for various reasons, to the 

 purpose for which it was intended. The man who is 

 a beginner at any form of angling and goes to the 



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