SEA-RODS, REELS, AND VARIOUS TACKLES. 69 
permanent place is at home or aboard a yacht. 
For ordinary everyday purposes of taking one’s 
tackle, and bringing back the fish, I find a couple 
of the straw bags used by fishmongers and 
poulterers answer every purpose. These ‘cost only 
a shilling the dozen, and can consequently be 
renewed once or twice in the week, more particu- 
larly the one used for the carriage of fish. There 
are, it is true, a number of bags and baskets with 
Tue “GresHam” Bac. 
separate compartments for the latter ; but these do 
not answer the purpose, in my opinion, with sea 
fish, many of which, whiting, conger and mullet 
among them, impart an odour that is not to be got 
rid of by the usual method of scrubbing with soda 
and hot water. Perhaps the best bag sold for the 
purpose is that named after the “Gresham” 
Angling Society, to a member of which we owe 
the pattern. While on the subject of the carriage 
of fish, I may as well say a word, not knowing 
where I shall find better occasion, on the practice 
of sending presents of sea-fish to friends inland. 
As a matter of plain truth, it is, unless done with 
