JANUARY 17 



DEAR SIR, 



In view of the early opening of next 



salmon season, I have much pleasure in enclosing 



herewith, with compliments, one or two of the 



new Telarana Nova salmon casts and traces. 



By a strange coincidence, the first performance 



of Telarana Nova was witnessed by yourself on 



Loch Tay on the opening day of last season, and 



was most unfavourably criticised in The Scotsman. 



With the compliments of the season, 



I am, yours very truly, 



WM. ROBERTSON. 



The packet contained three traces and 

 three casts, showing the grades of fine- 

 ness. The stoutest is at least as thin 

 as a wire trace ; all of them are without 

 knots, hardly to be seen when in the 

 water, and of remarkable strength. To 

 the eye and the touch the material 

 seemed to be very finely-plaited gut. 

 Answering a question on that point, Mr. 

 Robertson wrote : 



Telarana Nova, I believe, is a product of the 

 silkworm prepared in some secret manner. It 

 has all the virtues and none of the faults of 

 single gut of equal weight, and has even been 

 used on the Tweed in its finest size for fishing 

 with the dry fly. 



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