Untitled - RB-Flys

22 PIKE AND OTHER COARSE FISH.
to convert the Nottingham trailers to what is commonly known
as the 'Thames style' of spinning ; first, because in fishing, as
in everything else, there is a charm in variety ;
secondly, because I am well aware that, at any
rate on their own river, the Nottingham spinners
are both expert and successful as regards the
actual results of their system and these the
most important results, viz., making good
baskets ... I might add as a third argument
against the attempt, that it would, I am quite
satisfied, be a failure.
Amongst the recent, I was going to say less
important, improvements in fishing gear but
no improvement that adds materially to the
comfort and efficiency of the angler's equipment
is unimportant are the various ingenious
inventions before noticed, for attaching the reel
to the rod. Of these I can only repeat here
that the most simple, inexpensive, and in every
way efficient fastening is that brought out at
the late Fisheries Exhibition, I believe, by
Messrs. Hardy Brothers, of Alnwick.
It is applicable, without exception, to nil
sorts of rods, and to every description of reel
which is attached by a plate in the ordinary
way. Whether it could be fitted to rods already
made with the common ring or other fasten-
ings, I am unable to say positively, but I have
little doubt that in many cases perhaps in
all it could be substituted. I shall never
have a rod made with any other fastening in
future.
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KEKI.-FASTENINO. The catch '
was originally attached to the
rod by nails or screws (n'Je cut), but, at my
suggestion, Messrs.
entirely surrounding
Hardy have now substituted a catch
or clasping the rod, which \z both more