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Messrs. Hardy have now arranged the bottom clasp so as to 

 completely embrace the circumference of the butt — see en- 

 graving—thus adding both to its strength and ' sightliness.' 



Messrs. Farlow have also recently brought out a ' Universal 

 Winch-fitting' — shown in the cut— which presents all the 

 same merits as the ' Wedge-fast,' the difference being that in 



' WEEGERS WEDGE-FAST' FITTING. 



UNIVERSAL ' WINCH FITTING. 



the ' Universal Winch-fitting ' the wedge is obtained by a 

 graduated depression in the wood of the butt itself. 



RODS. 



With regard to fly rods I shall say but little. Quot homines 

 tot sententice. Some fly fishers like hickory, others prefer green- 

 heart, or lancewood. Some like a rod made all of one wood, 

 others give the preference to a rod with the butt of one sort of 

 wood and the top joints of another, and a great many of 

 the modern school, especially those with whom price is not a 

 matter of importance, have given in their adhesion to the 

 spliced-cane rods, which are supposed to owe their origin to 

 our enterprising cousins on the other side of the ' Herring 

 Pond.' 



In the ' form ' of the rod again, as in regard to the wood 

 of which it may be constructed, it is rare to find two fishermen 

 of the same opinion. Many still hold to the old-fashioned 

 straight-butted rod, which tapered away with almost mathemati- 



