The Idyl of the Split-Bamboo, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Idyl of the Split-Bamboo, Vol. 1: A Cafefully Detailed Description of the Rod's BuildingThe author's previous book, Streamcraft, deals mainly with actual streamside technic - the selec tion, care, rigging, and use of the rod, with the choos ing Of lures, natural and artificial, and their manipu lation, and with fly-tying. Its contents, presented in a pocket form, well adapt it for a ready-reference companion on fishing expeditions and even when actually engaged on the water in the quest of the finny game. It comprises much data correlated from many sources, though always authoritative. But no where else, to his knowledge, may guidance be found for the construction of the split-bamboo Rod equally comprehensive and detailed as in the pages that follow. This has been preceded by a dissertation on The Joys of Angling, and there has been ap pended some information on Cultivating Silkworm Gut at Home, and some suggestions on Landing 'nets and Other Equipment, and for The Angler's Camp. The former treatise is largely a working manual for the open season and the stream, this is more a book for Winter evenings and the fireside, and for the workshop.The Sportsman's transcendent implements are'his rod and his gun. Compared with the glut of gun dope data on models, actions, bores, sights, gauges, shells, ballistics, etc. Constantly appearing in the outdoor journals and in book form for the consumption of the followers of Nimrod, there is a dearth of readily-available and plain technical infor mation relating to the fishing-rod. While it might be urged that comparatively but few anglers would care to undertake the manufacture of this instrument in its glorified form, it requires little argument to convince anyone that fishermen in general, whether especially addicted either to fresh or salt water, love to tinker with their tackle, and no argument at all to elucidate that a treatise dealing with construction must perforce include full directions for all rod reno vation and repairs. He that can make a rod cer tainly can fix one. Further, we admit the temerity to trust that this book will appreciably stimulate an increase in the number Of those who will be embold ened to essay the whole trick.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.