193 



Pike Fishing. Spinning continued. 

 Traces and leads, 135 141 



Double hook-swivels, 135 

 Staining Gimp, 143 

 Buffer Knot, 125 

 Rods for Spinning, &c., 144 

 short recommended, 145 

 rod described, 145 

 Reels and Reel lines, 145 

 Artificial baits, 146 



,, Fluted Spoon, 146 



,, The extinguisher head, 



148 



,, Mother of Pearl bleak, 

 148 



Live Baiting. 



Bait cans, 149 50 

 Field's ^Erating can, 151 

 Aspray's folding-up can, 152 

 Jardine's Snap tackle, &c., 153 



7 

 A Troller's Knife with 'disgorger 



blade,' 153 

 "Pike-Gag," 158 

 Disgorger scissors, 165 

 Pike-Tackle boxes, 15960 

 Pike-scale flies, 25 

 Prawn tackle for salmon, 132 



Reels. 



General remarks, 86 

 Slater's ' Combination,' 86 8 

 ' Strike from the winch reel,' 88 

 Farlow's ' lever salmon reel,' 89 

 Chevalier and Bowness' salmon 



Reel, 89 

 Malloch's Sun and Planet ' Reel, 



9i 



Anderson's ' Excelsior ' Reel, 92 

 Hardy's 'Revolving Plate' Reel, 



92 

 Williams' ' Safety bound ebonite 



winch,' 93 



Little's Aluminium Reel, 94 

 Reels with ' Line Protector,' 95 

 Bernard's Line Protector, 95 

 Temporary ditto, 96 

 Foster's * Skeleton Centre ' Winch, 



96 



American Reels, 96 

 " Orvis' Reel," 97 



Reel fittings. 



' Weeger's Wedge Fast ' (Hardy), 



97 

 'Universal Winch Fitting' (Farlow) 



97 



Reel-Lines for fly fishing. 



Best material, 98 



Level or taper ?, 99, loo 



"Whip- Last Line," 100 



' Acme ' line with steel centre 

 (Foster's), 98, 101 



Colours for reel-lines and Mr. Wells' 

 experiments, 101 



ditto for gut lines, 102 107 

 Rings (see ' Rod-fittings ') 



Bods and Eod Fittings. 

 Fly Rods, 66 



Split cane, 66 9 



ditto steel centre, 67 9 



For Salmon, short rods advocated, 



6972 



For Trout ditto, 72 

 8 ft. 6 in. ladies' spliced rod, 72 

 10 ft. spliced rod, 72 

 10 ft. lake Trout fly rod, 73 

 Stiff and swishy fly rods, correct 



theory, 734 



Varnish and polish bad, 74 5 

 'Combination Rods,' 778 



Rod-Rings. 



Upright and ' Snake ' ring, 756 

 Top-ring, 76 



Rod Joints. 



General remarks, 79 

 ' Irish Joint,' 79 

 Farlow's joint Fastener, 79 80 

 Hardy's ' Lock fast,' 8082 

 " Serrated Ferrules," 823 

 Parallel Joints and Sockets, 83 4 

 Anderson's ' Simplex ' Joint, 84 

 Watson and Hancock's Joint, 84 

 Williams' ' screw cap' Joint, 84 

 Gregson's 'spring clasp,' 84 6 



Rod-boxes, 122 



Rod-rest, 170 



Salmon rods (see ' Rods ') 



" Sans bouton " fishing leggings 121 



