ARTIFICIAL FLY-FISHING, &C. 



KODS uiiVD LINES PROPER FOR ARTIFICIAL FL F- 

 FISHIA f G, &C. 



As for your artificial Jly-rod, the directions 

 given in the first part of this treatise are suffi- 

 cient, only be careful that the materials which it 

 is composed of are well seasoned, and free from 

 knots, and that the whole is exactly perfect in 

 regard to symmetry. 



The length of the fly-rod is generally from 

 about fourteen to seventeen feet long ; which is 

 long enough for any one who understands fly- 

 fishing to throw twelve yards of line, with one 

 hand* and seventeen with both. 



To make a fly-rod, that will be exceedingly 

 neat and pleasant in hand, you must observe 

 the following method. 



Procure a nice breadth of ash plank, free from 

 knots, perfectly sound, and about seven feet 

 long; let it be turned in the lath so as to run 

 taper from the but end, which should be so thick 

 and no more than you can with ease grasp in 

 your hand ; then have it ferrelled, or bind it to 

 a piece of hazel seven feet long, and in exact 

 taper proportion to the ash.- As you may not be 

 able to get a piece of hazel so long, that will run 

 perfectly taper, it may consist of two or three 

 pieces ; then add to the hazel a nice piece of 

 yew (in the same proportion to the hazel as that 

 is to the ash) two feet long, made round, taper 

 and smooth, and to that, piece a bit of small, 

 round, and taper whale-bone, six inches long ; 

 then the rod will be completed ; and if just sym- 

 metry is observed through the whole, it will be 

 a most excellent one. 



Some use deal for making the bottom of the 



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