Salmon- Pishing. 



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and finally the old well-kno 

 firm of A. Clerk & Co., N 

 York, introduced into 

 ket the Leonard rod 

 twelve strands, and h; 



since been sup- , 



plying Europeans 

 with all they get 

 of this article.* 



I have taken 

 not a little pains 

 to get, as far as 

 possible, a cor- 

 rect history of 

 this somewhat re- 

 markable inven- 

 tion. My own rod 

 of this kind has 

 been used in both 

 rain and shine for 

 several seasons, 

 and is now in per- 

 tests, I have never 



mar 



of its 



weight, or of its length and any weight, that could throw a fly quite 

 as far; and, light as it is, it brought last year to gaff in twenty min- 

 utes a thirty-five pound fish, which my friend Curtis gaffed for me, 

 off the high rock at the " Big Salmon Hole" of the York. Any rod 

 with which one has killed many and large fish is, naturally, held to 

 be perfection upon the stream ; but the rod we have been describing 

 is beautiful as an objet de vertu, and in the library becomes a source 

 of joy to every admirer of skilled workmanship, though he be not 

 familiar with its use. 



This illustration shows the angler who has kept just strain 



• [I have seen a split bamboo rod made, according to the suggestions of that distin- 

 guished angler, the late James Stevens, of Hoboken, by Blacker, of London. ' I'll is 

 rod is of three sections, with the enamel on the outside, and was made in 1852 

 while Mr. Stevens was in London. This date has been accurately determined for 

 me by his son, Mr. Frank Stevens. — Editor.] 



