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are exactly of the proper shape, being rather too 

 much turned out in the points. Addlington's small 

 sizes are, without exception, the best that are made, 

 as they neither bend nor break, but are somewhat 

 difficult to get, as few fishing-tackle makers keep 

 them. Bartlett's small sizes are liable to bend (a 

 very bad fault), but the same objection does not 

 apply to his large sizes, which we prefer to Addling- 

 ton's, the latter maker's hooks, from No. 9 upwards, 

 being too thick in the wire. It is a great improve- 

 ment to get them japanned in the same way as the 

 Limerick hooks, for if left with the blue steel ex- 

 posed they are exceedingly liable to rust. 



Bartlett numbers his hooks from 1 J, the largest 

 size, to 17, the smallest. Addlington's numbers are 

 from the largest trouting size to 00, the smallest. 

 Being better acquainted with Bartlett's hooks than 

 any others, when we speak of hooks in the subsequent 

 parts of this volume the reader will understand that 

 it is his sizes to which we allude. The following 

 numbers of Bartlett and Addlington are about the 

 same size : 



Bartlett's Nos. . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 

 Addlington's Nos. 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 00 



Basket - pannier or Creel. The most elegantly 

 shaped baskets are those made of split willows, 

 usually called "French made." For the size of 

 basket every angler should be guided by the quantity 

 of fish he expects to capture ; nothing looks worse 

 than a few trout half-hidden with grass in the 

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