The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 57
th a cane roach rod, nor can you troll comfortably with afly-rod; but your selection of this article of tackle, as of everyother, must be governed to a certain extent by convenience andto some extent by the nature of the water you are going tofish. A rod of four joints, with a stiff top and a… … have but little fault to findwith the countless treatises onangling which have appearedin the English language, beyondthe fact that they bewilder thetyro with what we consideran undue importance attachedto different tackle for dif-ferent kinds of angling, andperhaps that singular omis-explanations…
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