330 TROUT AND ANGLING. 



or a hundred yards long. He has a brass reel or 

 winch, upon which the line is wound. The winch 

 is not a multiplying one, but single, and attached 

 to the butt of the rod, the end joint of which is 

 short and stout ; other spare joints are contained 

 in the butt of the rod. His hooks are large and 

 well tempered, of the size best known as mack- 

 erel-hooks, and they are attached to double and 

 twisted gut, upon which a weight, about the size 

 of a musket-ball, is made by loops to fasten on at 

 pleasure. 



His pocket-book is well furnished with all the 

 materials necessary for the prosecution of his 

 sport, together with such implements as are requir- 

 ed to repair that derangement of his apparatus 

 which in fishing is always likely to occur. Only 

 one thing more is added to complete his gear, (for 

 artificial flies have seldom or never been tried,) 

 and that is, a net with a wide bow and a short han- 

 dle, or a gaff which answers the same purpose, to 

 land his fish, when, after being sufficiently exhaus- 

 ted by playing, they aro ready to take in. 



Thus equipped, the angler visits Sebago in the 

 month of June. If he is a lover of nature, there is 

 much to admire, not only in that densely wooded 

 scenery which generally surrounds our inland lakes, 

 and is so striking in this, but also in those little quiet 

 fairy islands which here and there break the glassy 



