Excerpt from Fishing Tackle: Modern Improvements in Angling Gear, With Instructions on Tackle-Making for the Amateur The pride of the angler in his outfit is unparalleled in the world of sport, because lures and baits exist in such infinite variety that on the wisdom of his choice the result of the day's sport will chiefly depend. Almost as much pleasure may be derived from the care and rigging up of the tackle as from the actual sport itself, and many happy hours may be spent, when fishing is off, in refitting tackles to a nicety, gauging their strength, and generally overhauling the rod, reel and line, so that when the supreme moment arrives and the big fish is on in deadly earnest the wielder of the rod may know exactly the strain his outfit will with stand and just what latitude he can allow the monster battling for life in the depths. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.