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AMERICAN FISHES. 



with several pieces of card-board fitted insiSe, between which they 

 bestow their flies, casting-lines, <fec. Others, again, and they are by 

 far the most numerous, use pocket-books — many of them so volumi- 

 • nous that they require a donkey to carry them. A selection of a dozen 

 salmon-flics and two dozen trout-flies are ample for the day's use ; the 

 balance of the stock may be left at home. 



Here you have the plans and dimensions of a salmon and trout-book. 

 The salmon-book was made to my order .some years ago, and has been 

 very much adopted in England since. Its great advantages consist in 

 your being able to stow away a large number of flies; to keep the gut 

 straight (for the ends all hang out at one end); and, at the same time, 

 not to be too cumbersome. The flannel between each layer of hooks 

 prevents rust. The trout-book is one of many years' standing, and 

 I do not know a better one. 



Fig. 1. 



EXAMPLfi FOR A SALMON-FLY BOOK. 



Fig. 1 represents the leaves, which are of parchment, with cross-bars 

 of strong silk, knotted through at the point of intersection 

 of the cross-lines ; the other side of the leaf presents the 

 same appearance, the two folds of parchment being stitched 

 together at the edges ; between each leaf is one of parch- 

 ment incased in flannel — this absorbs the moisture and 

 prevents rust. Size, eight and a half inches long by four 

 inches wide, the outside case of Russia leather, on the one 

 side, containing three capacious pockets to hold casting- 

 lines, spare gut, <fcc. ; the other side, with a band of leather 

 stitched across the inside to hold a pair of scissors, knife, gaff, and a 

 spare place for any odd matter, as lancet, &c. 



Fig. 2 represents the plan of hooking in a fly, 

 the barb of which is passed under one strand and 

 brought down to the angle over the other strands ; 

 six or seven of these double leaves are ample. 

 The one outside must have a wide flap reaching 

 half-way down the other side and closed with a 

 wide buckle and strap to fasten the hook by (kept 

 iu its place by two keepers on the flap, the other 

 on the back). 



Fro 2. 



