FLIES AND FLY FISHING. 43 



CHAPTER III. 



OX TACKLE. 



RODS SINGLE HANDED WHITE TROUT RODS FER- 

 RULED SPLICED BAD FLY RODS THE REEL THE 

 LINE LANDING NET THE BASKET GUT CASTING 

 LINES How TO MAKE DYEING GUT HAIR ATTACH- 

 ING DROP FLIES. 



Rods. For all brown trout and grayling fishing a single- 

 handed rod is the weapon to use ; for very small rivers 

 you may have one eleven feet or eleven feet six inches 

 long, and for wider ones, of twelve feet or twelve feet four 

 inches. With the single rod a good fisherman can fish 

 almost any place with the greatest exactness ; and if he 

 wades, no matter how wooded, I would as soon go out 

 snipe shooting with a duck-gun as use a double-handed 

 rod on small waters, or anywhere when fishing for 

 ordinary sized fish. 



For white trout the double-handed rod is preferable, 

 because you generally employ heavier flies, and also stand 



