COAPLER. Ii. 
SEA-RODS, REELS, AND VARIOUS TACKLES. 
SEA-FISHING with rod and line has in our 
seas come in fashion almost within the last ten 
years, while the float and groundbait have, 
for general use, arrived from inland waters 
at a date still more recent. By degrees, and 
almost imperceptibly, the term “sea-angler” has 
come to indicate one who uses the rod in salt 
water, though many still use it in the broader 
sense of any amateur sea-fisherman, whether he 
seek his sport with rod or hand-line. The sug- 
4 gestion made last winter by “Red Spinner,” 
Shinneva® that the committee of the British Sea 
ee et nglers’ Society should pass a law pledging 
members of the society to use the rod, has 
not, I believe, been acted upon, but has much to 
commend it, provided some loophole be left for the 
use of the more primitive hand-line whenever con- 
ditions render the rod less effective. 
For it is certain, though in our new enthusiasm 
Case for for the rod we are in danger of forgetting 
tee the fact, that there ave conditions under 
line which the hand-line is not only as good, 
but indeed better. The rod may, it is true, be 
