Fishing Kits and Equipment (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Fishing Kits and Equipment

It is the writer's purpose to treat systematically the subject of tackle and, in addition, to suggest what tackle to select for the brook trout, the black bass, and other sweet-water game fishes. The reader is duly warned that he will seek in vain herein for exciting tales of mortal combats with huge bass or trout for fish stories of any sort, either alleged or experienced. Neither are there picturesque descriptions of the moun tain trout stream or the...