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The net itself should in these and all other cases be made of 

 some material dressed with oil, both for purposes of preservation 

 avoidance of the saturation which saturates also the angler's 

 garments and prevention of entanglement with hooks and flies. 

 I daresay we can most of us recollect the time when this now very 

 generally introduced improvement in fishing tackle was practically 

 unknown. 



SPRING-JOINTED NET 



AND 



MODE OF CARRYING. 



A still longer handle is obtained, and without any very serious 

 sacrifice on the score of portability, by doubling up the net-handle 

 with a folding spring-joint (see cut, left hand figure). 



The idea of this folding handle originated, I believe, with 

 Messrs. Ogden, of Cheltenham, but it has recently been greatly 

 improved upon by Messrs. Farlow, and in especial the "jointing" 

 has been so much simplified and bettered whilst being at the 

 same time reduced in weight as to entitle the latter firm to no 

 small share of the honors of the invention. 



