68 SEA-FISH. 
it is my object to give the best counsel at my 
disposal in the light of recent experiences, and I 
have no intention of sparing my own previous 
errors where I think it to the reader’s benefit that 
I should recant. 
First, the basket, or creel, a most useful and 
important receptacle. A deal has been written on 
this subject, much has been said for and 
against open or closed creels, still more in 
preference of a bag to any basket yet designed. 
Basket 
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Now, the orthodox creel, of the pattern figured, is 
undoubtedly an excellent article ; but to be of any 
use for holding one’s lines and reels it must be of 
the largest size procurable—my own is over 2 ft. 
long, and I picked it up, as one picks up so many 
useful things at low prices, as a “misfit” that had 
been ordered but not paid for—and being as it is 
somewhat unwieldy, I cannot help thinking that its 
