I02 SALMON AND TROUT. 



bably very often have to carry his fish himselt. for this pur- 

 pose bags and baskets ' many and great ' are sold at the tackle 



THE FRKKE BAG. 



A convenient-sized. Freke bag for the ordinary purpose? of the trout 

 fisher is about i foot 7 inches wide by, say, 14 inches deep. The 

 weight in this size should not exceed i lb. 10 oz. The shoulder 

 strap — or rather webbing, for leather ' soddens ' — should be 2 inches 

 wide, and in larger sizes 2i or 3 inches. A ' Carry-all ' basket (see 

 page 104) of something like corresponding capacity weighs 3 lbs. 



shops, but that they are most of them defective in some points 

 in which they might have been perfected, goes without saying. 

 In fact, as regards the bags (which for ordinary purposes f 

 always use myself), I have found them mostly to suffer the dis- 

 ability of coming to pieces — if not the first time they had a 

 good catch to carry, at any rate, after, say, a few days or weeks 

 of real hard wear and tear; others, again, let the slime and drip- 

 pings ooze through. After trying various patterns, including one 

 of my own, figured in the first edition, I am disposed to think 

 that for combined strength and simplicity, and taking one day's 

 fishing with another, nothing beats, or perhaps equals, the 

 * Freke bag,' as it is called, which is, or should be, made double. 



