The Complete Angler's Vade-Mecum; Being a Perfect Code of Instruction on the Above Pleasing Science - Wherein Are Detailed, a Great Variety of Original (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ...four lines I two of the lines ihould be stout, the two others rather liner, but all of the best quality. The hooks should never be affixed to the lines except when in use; but the floats should; for which reason, one side of the racks should be grooved deeper than the other; so that the floats might lay within them. The opposite side of the Look should contain a similar firm case, which ought to open at the bottom, instead of at the top; Scl that when turned on its edge to be closed, the back shouldperve as a cover to it. K5 In In this should be a small clearing-ring; a flat-reel; a small coffin-lead; a few split-shot, swivels, and quillloops, also some rings and splents, all in a folding vellum. A few hooks sorted, a card with several colours of tine but strong sewing silk wound on it, a little coblers-wax in a piece of shoe-leather, a pair of neat scissars, very short in the points, and a disgovger. Your trolling and dipping tackle ought to be in folded vellum, and may lay between two or three strong pleats of tanned leather, which should form a kind of inner pocket-book with a flap and strap; this should be fastened into the middle of the back, and lay between the two stiff cases. Your spare gut, and your mounted foot-lengths of various descriptions, with and without shot, should be also in parcels of thin vellum, duly superscribed; so that you may know the contents of each without opening. Of course your trolling and dipping tackles will include all that relates to live and to dead baits, such as baiting-needles, sewing-needles stuck on a flannel flap, spare gimp, some leads, swivels, and every thing of that class. As to a jack-float, such as is used for live-bait, you must let that accompany your rod-spud, butt-hook, landing-net, ..