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of which is fixed a large winch, with thirty or forty 

 yards of line, which is run through the rings of each 

 rod, and are united at the smaller ends, where you attach 

 three or four salmon-flies, whipt to three fine guts twisted 

 together, or you may whip them on a single salmon-gut, 

 when you are thus provided, you may walk up the river 

 side, dropping your flies in places most likely where sal- 

 mon resort to, and if they are right the fish will seldom 

 refuse them. 



Thnre is another destructive method of taking salmon, 

 trout, and many other fish, called " LATH-FISHING. For 

 this kind of angling you must provide a deal board, six 

 feet long, and four and a half inches wide, including a 

 piece of iron which is fixed on the thinest edge from end 

 to end which causes the board to swim with the thickest 

 edge up, which must be an inch thick, and the iron-shod 

 edge three-eights of an inch. There must be a hole 

 bored through near to each end, and two inches from the 

 top or thick edge, to admit of a piece of string being 

 fixed somewhat like the bellyband of a kite. You 

 must tie a small piece of string to this bellyband, two feet 

 six inches from one end, and three feet six inches from 

 the other, to which you fix the small end of your line ; 

 the rod must be nine feet long, and three-quarters of an 

 inch thick at the top, with a brass hoop fixed upon it, 

 and a large ring screwed to the end for the line to run 

 through, which must be wound round a reel, and fixed to 

 the thick end of the rod; you may use three, four, or five 

 flies on your line at once. I have seen laths which have 

 not been more than three feet long, and ten inches dee}), 



