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full large in proportion to the quantity of line, or it 

 will not always go pleasantly with it in winding up. 



" GTJT AND FLIES. Use about eight feet of 

 gut, and the addition of that on the tail fly, will 

 bring the whole foot-line to about three yards. Put 

 on your bob fly a few inches below the middle ; or, 

 if in a very weedy river, within little more than a 

 yard of the other; lest, while playing a fish with 

 the bob, your tail fly may get caught in a weed. 

 More gut than is here prescribed will be found an 

 incumbrance when you want to get a fish up tight ; 

 insomuch that, of the two, I would rather have a 

 little less than more of it. 



" A small fly book may, of course, be taken ; 

 and I should recommend it on my plan, which is of 

 Eussia leather, in order to repel the moth. This 

 no one will do better for you than Chevalier,* 

 Bell-yard, Temple Bar. A common beaver hat is 

 the best thing to hook and keep flies on; and, if 

 you have not two rods by the river side, always 

 keep a gut length and flies ready to put on round 

 your hat, in order to avoid the waste of time and 

 torment which you would have, if you had much 

 entangled your line. 



* Several others are equally excellent performers in making 

 rods, tackle, and flies ; among whom may be mentioned 

 Bowness, Willingham, Ustonson, and Holmes, all of London. 



