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also form four legs, so as to keep the can off the ground, and when not in use 

 are carried inside. When the can is folded, and fastened with two elastic 

 bands, it occupies a very small space, and can be carried in the pocket or 

 basket. Mr. N. Aspray, Surgeon-Dentist, 22, Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, 

 is the inventor." 



The "Troller's Knife "can hardly, I think, be strictly called 

 a " Modern Improvement " seeing it has been before the Angling 

 public for some fifteen or twenty years, but as I find there is still a 

 steady " demand " I may perhaps be allowed to allude to it. The 

 idea occurred to me in consequence of the difficulty I experienced 

 in collecting and, indeed, in recollecting before starting for 

 the river, the several little appliances necessary to comfort and 

 efficiency, pocket knife, baiting-needle, disgorger, &c. ; and it 

 struck me that a ' Trolling Knife ' which would contain them all 

 would be a saving of trouble. I, therefore, had a knife made con- 

 taining as far as possible what was likely to be really wanted, 

 whilst eliminating unnecessary articles, and the knife figured in 

 the cut was the outcome. 



The only part of it which was, I believe, really new was the 

 <l disgorger blade," as it has been somewhat inaccurately termed, 

 and this has since figured in most so-called fishing knives. It is 

 a really powerful, serviceable weapon, and the extra length 

 obtained by the attachment to the knife-handle has saved me 

 many a cut finger. The knife is manufactured and sold only by 

 Messrs. Watson and Hancock, 308, High Holborn. 



In quitting the subject of Pike Tackle improvements, more or 

 less novel, I have reserved one of the best until the last, as a runner 

 keeps his strength for a final spurt. Mr. Alfred Jardine's re- 

 markable success amongst leviathan pike is well known, and the 

 beautiful and life-like casts of some of them are familiar to many 

 besides Trollers, who visited the late Fisheries Exhibition. The 

 tackle with which his execution was principally done is described 

 in the Fishing Gazette as the "Pike 'Leger' and 'Jardine 



