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fresh water, which you should do very often in hot 

 weather. Never put your hand into the water, as it 

 both flurries the fish and heats the water, but take 

 them out with a very small hand-net, provided for that 

 purpose. 



4. A pannier, or basket, to carry ground-bait, fish, 

 &c., in. 



SECT. VI. POCKET-BOOK. 



THIS should contain a reel, on which to wind the lines, 

 and have pockets to hold spare hooks and lines. A 

 sliding-frame in the centre division of the reel is very 

 handy. It should be partitioned into four small lockers, 

 or chests, the lid sliding in a groove. In these partitions 

 keep some split shot, of the sizes Nos. 5 and 7; small 

 caps for floats, some spare hooks, a small piece of India 

 rubber, a skein of fine white silk, reeled off on a card 

 to fit the aperture; some fine twine, and a piece of 

 cobbler's wax, wrapped in a piece of chamois leather. 

 The book should also have fitted in its covers, under 

 leather straps, some spare floats; a disgorger, made 

 either of bone, wood, or iron; a small pair of 

 scissors; a pocket-knife (if not carried in the pocket); 

 a pair of pliers for putting shot on the line; a shot 

 cutter; a clearing ring of brass, and jointed, as that 

 will more readily pass over the rod than one without a 

 joint; and a leaden plummet, for taking the depth. 

 These plummets are of various kinds. Some have a screw 

 of wire at the top, around which the line is passed, 

 and the hook inserted in a piece of cork at the bottom. 

 Others have a ring, through which the hook is passed, 

 and then inserted, as in the former, in the cork bottom. 



