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Messrs. Williams' box is intended to carry a complete Jack- 

 fisher's outfit, including reel ; and has several separate divisions 

 for hooks and flights it is certainly very compact consider- 

 ing how much it holds. Measurement, 1 1 inches long, 7| wide, 

 and 3j deep. 



Another excellent " General Tackle box," in japanned tin, is 

 made by Messrs. Chevalier, Bowness and Bowness, 230, Strand. 

 To the angler travelling, or living abroad in hotels and fishing 

 quarters, I should especially commend this box, as containing the 

 requisite space and variety of drawers, compartments, &c., to 

 enable him to stow the whole of his tackle impedementa whether 

 for fly, float, or pike-fishing in one case. The box is made in 

 four or five different sizes. 



Mr. B. R. Bambridge, of Eton-on-Thames, makes also an 

 excellent general tackle box for travelling or home purposes, with 

 plate for name or initials, address, &c. The box material is 

 either of japanned tin, mahogany, or oak. 



FLOAT FISHING AND MISCELLANEA. 



The improvements in actual float-fishing gear that I can 

 enumerate are very few. Indeed, beyond the most important one 

 of the application of eyed-hooks to all kinds of float-fishing and 

 bottom-fishing generally for which the reader is referred to pre- 

 ceding chapters there is really hardly anything noteworthy to 

 chronicle. 



THE TRAVELLING FLOAT. 



The gradual spread of the Nottingham style of fishing with 

 float both fixed and ' travelling ' in most branches of river fishing 

 and in some branches of pond fishing, though in many respects 

 presenting great advantages over the old style, hardly comes within 

 the scope of this essay, having been now for a great many 

 years before the angling public, the modus operandi being also very 



