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gut be round, clear, and perfect, and as strong ag you can 
procure, 
2 horse-hair casting-lines, from eighty to one hundred feet 
long each, braided in the form of a whip-lash, and nearly one 
fourth of an inch in diameter in the centre. Pritchard Broth- 
ers make this upper casting-line to perfection. It is light, 
and its shape greatly assists casting, while it is not go liable 
to sink and drown as the silk, or silk and hair line, though 
protected with varnish. This casting-line is a destderatum 
not to be neglected. Before splicing it to your reel-line, cut 
off from the latter as many yards as you add by the upper 
casting-line. 
6 dozen, or nearly a gross, of assorted salmon-flies, and a 
quantity of materials to enable you to duplicate the size and 
color of either; for salmon of different pools in the same 
nging so frequently 
river have different tastes, and keep chai 
that a Montreal fly of brown mallard wings, claret body, and 
golden pheasant top-knot for tail, which they curved their 
velvet tails at yesterday, is the favorite to-day, to be super- 
seded to-morrow, perhaps, by a Tweed fly. When the angler: 
runs nearly out of a favorite fly, he selects a hook of the same 
size and combines the same colors to mount it with; and 
though it be not artistically tied, it generally proves success- 
ful, for salmon do not scrutinize very closely when they wit- 
ness the combination of colors which they admire. When yel- 
low is the favorite color, and you have run out of flies of that 
tint, tie a new fly, or, if in a hurry, add yellow to another fly. 
1 hank of round, clear, and heavy silk-worm gut, stained. 
GAFF-HOOKS. 
Ais the salmon-bend gaff, and B the striped bass: The dis- 
tance across the bend of the first is 24 inches, and 2} across 
the bend of B. The screws are of steel or brass, to fit into a 
handle six feet long, and composed of two joints. The gaffs 
should be heavy, and from one fourth to three eighths of an 
inch in diameter in the heaviest parts. 
