Auways Use Tur Best TAcKLeE. 159 
Troutine Tack ie, 
Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. Split bamboo tront-rod and click reel. The hand-hold above the 
reel is either velvet or plain wood. This trout-rod is e minently American; joints 
and rings of German silver, the rings gradually diminishing in size from butt to 
top. A “spliced top joint is to be preferred. 5. Wick asket with padlock, and 
plate for owner's name; sliding shoulder-pad on the strap. 6. Tin bait-box, paint- 
ed, perforated lid, and waist-belt. Tbe strap is sometimes so made as to connect 
with the basket-strap, when the box is worn or left off, at the option of the wearer. 
In case of connecting the bait-strap with the baskef-strap, the basket is supported 
by the left shoulder, and the bait-strap attaches at the waist, so that the right arm 
is entirely free for casting. 7. Fly-book with leaves of Bristol-board, or other stiff 
material, to which are attached short ends of elastic, with a hook to attach a loop, 
and a ring at the other end of the leaf for the hook. This plan of carrying flies 
without bending the gnt was invented by Mr. Hutchinson, of Utica, New York, and 
the cards may eith ye attached to the Dook or laid in as leaves, so that the angler 
may merely take a single leaf of selected flies, and place it in his pocket-book fora 
day’s fishing. 8. Landing-net. Rim of hollow brass wire. Meshes large and of 
not too fine twine. Handle formed of two joints which screw together, or made so 
that the joint connected with the net wiil slide into the butt. The oval shape of 
rim is better than the round one. 
MODERN SPLICE FOR FLY Robs. 
A correspondent of the Frerp (London), January 4, 1868, 
described the modern splice, and gave it his name of the 
“ Robinson Splice,” but since then several contributors claim 
to have used the same splice many years; and the reason for 
giving it to my readers is that every angler, when writing 
upon it, commends it. It is generally used for splices of sal- 
mon-rods, but I can not see why it would not be equally use- 
ful for splicing the top joint of a trout-rod. The following 
is the description: “The splice is of the ordinary length, with 
a small, thin rim, or flat ring of brass at the thick end of each 
