36 CONTENTS OF THE CABINET. 



The other face of the cabinet, devoted to salmon and 

 pike tackle, may be fitted up precisely in the same way, 

 only that the bottom drawer, No. 12 in the trouting 

 face, may be extended the full breadth of the cabinet, 

 and No. 13 for reels done away with, as salmon-reels are 

 too bulky articles to be kept in such a receptacle, while 

 as many of the drawers as can be spared may be devoted 

 to dressed flies. 



Fig. 13 shows the manner in which the hook-drawer 

 of that face of the cabinet is to be divided. No. 1 

 compartment will hold salmon-hooks of the largest size 

 made up to three inches in length, while the others will 

 contain the intermediate sizes down to the smallest. 

 Compartment 8 may be provided with a bar-magnet, 

 besides netting needles and other etceteras. 



A bar-magnet may be considered, at first view, as 

 rather a strange piece of fishing apparatus ; but recol- 

 lect I do not by any means intend to drag the fish forth 

 from the water by the sheer force of magnetic attraction, 

 as you may suppose. I only use it for the purpose of 

 lifting the hooks out of such of the small compartments 

 in the hook-drawer as I cannot conveniently introduce 

 my fingers into ; and for this purpose it will be found 

 exceedingly handy. 



Dressed flies may be very conveniently stowed away 

 in envelopes, each envelope containing only a particular 

 kind of fly separate by itself, with its name and number 

 corresponding to the dressing list marked upon it what 

 particular season, time of day, and river, it is specially 

 adapted for the period of its duration time of appear- 



