FLOATS. 



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and sizes at the tackle shops. Small cork floats ai« the 

 handiest for general fishing, but for carp, roach, and 

 chub, a small quill must be used, (figs. 4 and 5.) For fish- 

 ing for pike with live bait, the float must be proportion- 

 ately larger, (fig. 7.) They maybe easily made j an easily 

 made, Ught, and useful quill float is shown in fig. 5. It is 

 made from two quills cut through the middle, and each 



Fig. 4. 



Fig. 6. 



Fig. 7. 



cut end slipped over a plug of some light wood. A 

 useful cement for joining floats, tipping their ends to 

 keep out the wet, and other angling and general purposes, 

 is made of 1 oz. of bees-wax, 5 oz. of yellow resin, molted 

 togefier in an earthenware vessel ; an ounce of Venetian 



