FLOATS. 



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and sizes at the tackle shops. Small cork floats ai the 

 handiest for general fishing, but for carp, roach, and 

 chub, a small quill must be used, (figs. 4 and 5.) For fish- 

 ing for pike with live bait, the float must be proportion- 

 ately larger, (fig. 7.) They maybe easily made; an easily 

 made, light, and useful quill float is shown in fig. 5. It is 

 made from two quills cut through the middle, and each 



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Fig. 4. Fig. 5. Fig. 6. 



Fig. 7. 



cut end slipped over a plug of some light wood. A 

 useful cement for joining floats, tipping their ends to 

 keep out the wet, and other angling and general purposes, 

 is made of 1 oz. of bees-wax, 5 oz. of yellow resin, melted 

 together in an earthenware vessel ; an ounce of Venetian 



