102 SALMON AND TROUT. 
bably very often have to carry his fish himselt. for this pur- 
pose bags and baskets ‘ many and great’ are sold at the tackle 
THE FREKE BAG, 
A conventent-sized. Freke bag for the ordinary purposes of the trout 
fisher is about 1 foot 7 inches wide by, say, 14 inches deep. The 
weight in this size should not exceed 1 lb. 10 0z, The shoulder 
strap—or rather webbing, for leather ‘ soddens'—should be 2 inches 
wide, and in larger sizes 24 or 3 inches. A ‘Carry-all’ basket (see 
page 104) of something like corresponding capacity weighs 3 lbs. 
shops, but that they are most of them defective in some points 
in which they might have been perfected, goes without saying. 
In fact, as regards the bags (which for ordinary purposes [ 
always use myself), I have found them mostly to suffer the dis- 
ability of coming to pieces—if not the first time they had a 
good catch to carry, at any rate, after, say, a few days or weeks 
of real hard wear and tear ; others, again, let the slime and drip- 
pings ooze through. After trying various patterns, including one 
of my own, figured in the first edition, I am disposed to think 
that for combined strength and simplicity, and taking one day’s 
fishing with another, nothing beats, or perhaps equals, the 
‘ Freke bag,’ as it is called, which is, or should be, made double. 
