204 THJI COMPLETE ANGLER. PART I. 



But you must hare all these tackling, and twice so 



many more, 1 with which, if you mean to be a fisher, you 



must store yourself; and to that pur- 



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pose I will go with you, either to Mr. 



Margrave, who dwells amongst the 

 booksellers in St. Paul's Church-yard, 

 or to Mr. John Stubs, near to the Swan in Golding-lane: 



(1) If yon go any great distance from home, you will find it necessary to 

 carry with you OMoy more thing* than are hrre enumerated ; most of which 

 may be very well contained in a wicker pauler of about twelve inches wide, and 

 eight high, of the fora, and pot Into a havking-bag. The following U a lilt of 

 the most material : a rod with spare top ; llnet rolled up, and neatly laid In 

 round flat boxes; par link*, single hairs, waxed thread and silk ; plummets of 

 various ; floats of all kinds, and spare raps ; worn-bugs, and a R entle-box ; 

 books of all stars, tome whipped to single hairs ; shot; shoemaker's wax, in a 

 very small gallipot covrrrd with a bit of leather ; a clearing-ring, tied to about 

 n yards of strong cord ; the use of this is to disengage your hook when it has 

 caught a weed. Ace. in which case take off the butt of your rod, and slip the 

 ring over the remaining joints, and, holding it by the cord, let it gently full ; a 

 landing net, the hoop whereof must be of iron, and made with joints to fold, 

 and a socket to bold a staff; take with you also surh baits as you intend to usr. 

 That you may keep your Ash alive be provided with a smal hoop.net, to draw 

 close to the lop. And never be without a sharp knife, and a pair of sctssars. 

 Aod if yoo mean to uw the Artificial fly, have your fly-book always with you. 



And for the more convenient keeping and carriage of lines, links, single hairs, 

 Ate. take a piece of parchment or vellum, seven inches by ten : on the longer 

 sides, set off four inches ; od then fold it cross-wise, so as to leave a flap of two 

 inches, of which hereafter : then take eight or ten pieces of parchment, of seven 

 inches by four ; pot them into the parchment or vellum so folded, and sew up the 

 end* ; then cut the flap round. nc. and fold it down like a pocket-book : lastly, 

 you mjy. if yoo please, hind along the ends and round the flup with red tape. 



Into this case, put lines coiled up, spare links, single hairs, and hooks ready 

 whipped and looped. 



And having several of these cases, you my fill them with lines. &c. proper 

 for rvery kind of fishing ; always remembering to put into each of them a corger, 

 or small piece of caoe, of five inches lone, and a quarter of an inch wide, with 

 a notch at ech end ; with thU. when a fish has gorged your hook, you may, by 

 putting it down his throat till yon feel the hook, and holding the line tight 

 while you press it down, easily disengage it. 



Aod if yoo should chance to break your top, or any other part of your rod, 

 take the following directions for mending it : Cut the two broken ends with a 

 long slope, so that they may fit neatly together; then spread some wax, very 

 thin, on each slope ; and with waxed thread or silk, according as the size of the 

 Iroken pan requires, bind them very neatly together. To fasten off, lay the 

 fore-finger of yoor left hand over the binding, aud with your richt make four 

 turns of the thread over it ; then pats the end of your thread between the under- 

 side of your finger and the rod. and draw your finger away ; lastly, with the 

 fore-finger aad thumb of yoor ritbt hand, take hold of the firnt of the turns, and, 

 gathering as much of it as you can, bind on till the three remaining turns are 

 wound off, and then take' hold of the eud which you had before brought 

 through, and then draw close. 



