FISHING TACKLE 



INTRODUCTION 



FISHING TACKLE: ITS USES AND 

 ABUSES 



THE pride of the angler in his outfit is unparalleled 

 in the world of sport, because lures and baits exist in 

 such infinite variety that on the wisdom of his choice 

 the result of the day's sport will chiefly depend. Almost 

 as much pleasure may be derived from the care and 

 rigging up of the tackle as from the actual sport itself, 

 and many happy hours may be spent, when fishing is 

 "off," in refitting tackles to a nicety, gauging their 

 strength, and generally overhauling the rod, reel and 

 line, so that when the supreme moment arrives and 

 the big fish is on in deadly earnest the wielder of the 

 rod .may know exactly the strain his outfit will with- 

 stand and just what latitude he can allow the monster 

 battling for life in the depths. 



Great progress has been made during recent years 

 in the manufacture of fishing tackle so much so that 

 it is just as unthinkable for an angler to set out with 

 old-fashioned gear as it is for a golfer to do himself 

 justice on the links with an old gutta ball and clubs of 

 the shape used when the game was in its infancy. 



To set out with untested gut, perhaps old and 

 brittle, and a line that has been left wet on the reel 

 some weeks previously and will assuredly break like 



