ful; "but in many places, where the angler travels for 

 miles by the lonely stream unbooted for who 

 could walk twenty miles cased up to the crutch in 

 something like a "French postilion's jack-"boots? this 

 is often dispensed with, and the angler, after having 

 fairly wearied out the fish, draws him gently to 

 the shore, and lands him with his hand. A " gaff," 

 which is a stick rather pliant, from three to four feet 

 long, with a large hook screwed into one end, is 

 used by the salmon-fisher to lift the fish out of the 

 water. 



In fishing for salmon it is generally necessary to 

 have from sixty to eighty yards of line, which may 

 be either of silk, or silk and hair, without knots, on 

 the reel ; and to the end of this should be looped or 

 knotted a casting-line of hair about the length of 

 the rod, consisting of sixteen hairs at the upper 

 end, and gradually diminishing to ten or twelve 

 where it is joined by the foot-length or link to which 

 the hook is whipped. Many old anglers are of opi- 

 nion that casting -lines, hand-twisted and knotted, 

 may be thrown better, and are less liable to kink 

 than such as are twisted by a machine. Being 

 knotted is no objection to this portion of the line, 

 as it is not required to be drawn within the rings. 



A line from thirty to forty yards long, somewhat 

 stronger and thicker towards the end which is fas- 

 tened to the reel, is generally used for trout-fishing in 

 streams ; and such as are made of silk and hair are 

 more pliant and less apt to kink than those that 



