STREAMCRAFT 



Selection, Care, and Rigging of the Rod 



REALLY fine fishing-rod the 

 most beautiful of all sporting 

 implements is much too good 

 to hazard in the hands of the 

 novitiate angler on the stream, 

 and yet we would advise that 

 he equip himself with one made 

 of split bamboo. Any tackle- 

 house of repute can supply him, 

 at a cost of from five to eight 

 dollars, with such a rod, about nine feet long, 

 well adapted to his needs. Free of the fear 

 of accidental injury to an expensive article 

 the beginner will make greater progress; and 

 when he has learned to cast very fairly with 

 this rod he will note a surprising improvement 

 immediately he has a better one in his hands. 

 When he has learned to know a good rod when 

 he handles and uses it, has learned how to treat 

 such a rod, and just what style of rod will suit 

 his individual wants, then it is time enough for 



