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^ I have taken a few of them with large size 

 blood red flies, brown flies, and large palmers 

 of the like colours. The flies Nos. 4, 5, and 7, 

 in the plates, are just the sort made a size or 

 two smaller ; Hampton Court, Sunbury, Wey- 

 bridge, and Pentonhook, are likely places to 

 rise a fish about seven in the evening, and 

 early in the morning from six to eight. A 

 light general rod with spare tops for fly 

 fishing, about sixteen or seventeen feet long, 

 with reel, and line of sixty yards, would be 

 about the sort I would recommend, made of 

 good hickory, or split cane ; this sort of rod 

 would suit any purpose, either for trolling, 

 spinning, or for barbel fishing with the lob 

 worm, &c. 



Mr. Stoddart in his " Work on Angling" 

 speaks very highly of worm and bait fishing in 

 general. 



And " Mr. Salter's Book," is a very good autho- 

 rity for trolling and spinning. The greater part 

 of the fishermen and punt men on the Thames 

 are capital hands at using the trolling and 

 spinning tackle, so that the young angler who 

 i desires to become expert at this sort of fishing, 

 § can easily gain instruction from these civil 



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