1 OPINIONS OF THE PKESS, &C. 



ever happened to pike-fishers who throw from a reel. He is quite right ; it 

 is a pertect cure for all twisting. The gentlemen whom I have supplied 

 with the tackle are much pleased with it, and tell their friends it is the 

 best idea ever invented, and I think so too. I have frequently been per- 

 fectly stuck fast from the- line twisting, and have been obliged to take it all 

 off the j*eel and draw it behind me through a field before I could start again ; 

 butythanks to Mr. Pennell, that sort of work is now all over. WM. BAILY, 

 Nottingham/' Nov. 6, 1862. 



Will be shortly published, by the same author, 



THE BOOK OF THE PIKE; 



Being a complete treatise on the various modes of Jack Fishing, and an 



analysis of the tackle employed, with the Natural History of the fisii 



from the Ova to the Oven. Illustrated. 







also, 



THE ANGLER'S NATURALIST; 



A PLAIN AND PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE NATURAL HISTORY 



OF BRITISH SPORTING FISH; WITH THE TECHNICAL 



TERMS EXPLAINED. 



" The greatest want in angling literature." 



" An outline, at least, of the natural history of the objects of the chase, so 

 far as relates to his own pursuits, should be acquired by every sportsman, 

 and will render his favourite pastime doubly delightful." 



