The Boys Own Guide to Fishing Tackle Making And Fishbreeding Being a Plain P
The Boys Own Guide to Fishing Tackle Making And Fishbreeding Being a Plain P
John Harrington Keene
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Both of the loops should be at least, one inch in length. You can now stretch the leader between two brass or clean iron nails on a board or on the side of the barn ; and when dry, being straight, it will coil neater for packing in your tackle-book. Some FLY-FISHING FOR TROUT 9/ good anglers like their gut for snells and leaders stained a mist color (a bluish dun), and this you can do before stretching with the following stain : In a teacupful of hot water nearly boiling drop a piece of coppera...s (sulphate iron), and set that aside. Now take a piece of extract of log- wood about the size of a bean, and dissolve it in another teacupful of hot water ; add to this a good pinch of carbonate of soda (saleratus), placing the gut into a bowl sufficient to hold the two cups of solution, and pouring the dissolved logwood over it. Let it soak for fifteen minutes, till the gut has attained a faint but decided crimson color. Then add the copperas solution all at once (not pouring slowly), and keep the gut moving for fifteen min- utes longer.
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