ARTICLES REQUISITE FOR ANGLERS. 7 



Minnow, gudgeon, and bleak tackle, and baiting needles of 

 different sizes. 



Loose hooks of all kinds. 



Paternosters for perch-fishing 1 . 



Cobbler's wax, sewing silk, and a few balls of small twine. 



[Floats of various sizes, and plenty of spare caps for floats. 



Split shot and bored bullets of various sizes. 



Disgqrger, and clearing ring and drag. 



Landing net, a gaff, and kettle for live bait. 



Gentle-box and bags for worms. 



A fishing-basket, creel, or game pouch. 



A pair of pliers, a pair of scissors, and a good pocket-knife, both 

 with large and small blades. 



A parchment book of artificial flies. 



A parchment book for general tackle. 



A book for containing the various articles requisite for making 1 

 artificial flies ; the following list of materials is necessary for this 

 purpose. 



Cock and hen feathers or hackles of all colours ; as red, ginger, 

 black, dun, olive-grizzle, and stone-colour. Peacock's herl, copper- 

 coloured, green, and brown. Black ostrich's herl. Fowls' spotted 

 feathers. 



The feathers of the turkey, the partridge, the grouse, ptarmigan, 

 pheasant, woodcock, ^ snipe, dotterel, landrail, starling, golden 

 plover, common pee-wit, wild mallard, bustard, sea-swallow, wren, 

 jay, blackbird, thrush, blue pigeon, silver-pheasant, parrot, and the 

 tame and wild duck. 



The fur of the water-rat, and hare's ears. 



Mohair dyed all colours. 



Pine Erench sewing silk of all colours. 



Plos silk of all colours. 



German wools of all colours. 



Silk twist and bee's-wax. 



A pair of pliers, a pair of fine-pointed scissors, a small slide 

 vice, and a few fine-pointed, strong dubbing needles. 



Silkworm gut, from the finest to the strongest ; and salmon gut 

 single and twisted. 



Length of the white and sorrel hairs of stallions' tails. 



And lastly, a variety of fly-hooks. 



Of course fancy has a great deal to do with all arrangements of 

 this kind. We find no two fishers alike in this instance. Some 

 anglers prefer one kind of hooks, some another; we have the 

 London hooks, the Kirby sneck, and the Limerick bend. A fair 

 assortment of essentials should be the guide. 



