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may be used, and the following are particularly good: 

 turkey, scarlet-ibis. Page, Brandretli, Fergusson, grizzly- 

 king, Montreal, silver-doctor, Rube "Wood, Lord Baltimore, 

 Whitney, Elliot, Eangely, Holberton, humble-bee, Gov. 

 Alvord, and white-miller. The hooks for these should be 

 from numbers 1 to 4. For trolling, the same tied with 

 double snells may be used on hooks from "/„ to 1. 



For salmon-fishing, the following are recommended: 

 Fairy, Dovey-queen, black-dose, Imbrie's-witch, gipsy, 

 butcher, fiery-brown, bonne-bouche, silver-gray, silver- 

 doctor, orange-doctor, black-doctor, lion, Dunkeld, blue- 

 tansy, gold-finch, dusty-miller, "Wilmot, thunder-and-light- 

 ning, blue-Highlander, parson, Wingfield-red, Popham, 

 Jock-Scott, and Durham-ranger. 



Lines are now made in an endless variety and of a vastly 

 improved quality. For salt-water fishing, linen lines are 

 generally used, as they stand the action of the chloride of 

 sodium better than silk. For heavy work, such as cod- 

 fishing, trolling for blue-fish, and deep sea-fishing, braided 

 and hawser-laid cotton lines are the best. The lines used 

 by the anglers at "West-Island, Pasque, Cuttyhunk, and 

 other localities where large striped-bass are taken, are 

 made of the choicest flax, hand-laid of from nine to 

 eighteen threads, and notwithstanding their fineness, are 

 marvels of strength. 



For fly-fishing for salmon, trout, and black=-bass, the 

 polished enamelled waterproof, tapered, silk lines have 

 entirely superseded the old hair, and hair-and-silk lines. 

 For fresh-water trolling and bait-fishing, there are the 

 hard-braid linen lines and the oiled silk braided lines, and 

 pure boiled or raw-silk for minnow-casting for black-bass, 

 and so forth. 



