Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-11-10
FISHING TACKLE.
low and Where Rods, Hooks, Lines.
Reels and Floats Are Made.


low and where Rods, Hooks Linss.
Reels and Floats Are Made.
The grade Of American fishing tackle
advances steadily, and SO does the cost
IN many cases, but there was little
comment when well-know politician,
who used to angle for minnows In his
childhood with u bent pin, sugar cord
and the branch OF tree, paid $3.50 for
fishing rod the other day that a firm
at Sixth and Market streets had made
for him. 1t was one of the best split
bamboo poles that was ever made In
this city.
Few people know the time and trou-
BILE 1t takes to make a good bamboo
fshing-rod. The bamboo is imported |
in big cargoes from Calcutta, India.
The wood has to be well-seasoned, and |
for two weeks the bamboo ,s dried by
steam. The rod is then split into six
lengths and cut into three sections, and
again dried for two weeks. The spliced
pieces are glued together, and it stays
in the glue for a month and is then
wrapped with silk.
It is afterward jointed with ferrules
Then it goes through the vanishing
process and receives four coats, each
coat Of varnish being given week to
dry. The pole is afterward given q
butt or handle OF ash, celluloid or
pearl, and ut the end OF about three
months. and when the pole has gone
through the hand Of six workmen, II
il finished. The rod must be plant as
a coach whip, bending from butt to
tip. Many poles are ruined in the proc
;, ess OF manufacture. The price Of
split bamboo poles run from Is to $50.
g but poles have been known to cost al
i most $500 where the ferrules and
! mountings were silver.
The next best rod to the bamboo
| Is made of lance-wood. This wood,
/ which is very heavy, is brought from
i South America in spars. The rod
maker has the spars sawed up.
d Lance-wood must have good season.
n ing, and frequently half Of it is a
dead loss. When the rod has been
r. trimmed and turned by machinery, it
n Is sand-papered and cut into three or
le four sections and jointed; then it is
Is ferruled, wrapped with silk or linen
y thread, and vanished three times.
y The lance-wood rods cost from four
to ten dollars. The cheap rods are
"a made Of ash and other common woods,
is with three joints, brass ferrules, and
III can be bought as low as one dollar
d dozen.
70 Almost all the hooks used in this
~ country come from England, although
- q factory at New Haven, Conn.,, Ii
y turning out big amount OF hooks
~ But they can not compare with the
~ English hooks. That the English
~ fish hook is the best Is due to thu
q. finely tempered steel from which it Il
~ made. The English hook won't snaI
vet off like the American hooks. There
nd is no steel equal to it made in thi
M country, and it costs too much to i'm
ts port the English steel and make tn
ch hooks here for the American market
ur All the English hooks are made Il
Id. Red-ditch, dirty-looking little tow
nd in Worcestershire, just over the coun
nd ty border from Birmingham. Their
AR is no hotel in the town, which is al
lot from the seven fish-hook factories G
OF the place. Over nine hundred peopl
.k- of little Red-ditch are every day KEEP
IN busy making fish hooks and needles
tor The finely-tempered steel Is run on
ef- into long wire. Different machiner
OF cuts and turns the wire into fish
ail hooks of all sizes, and one thousan
- hooks are turned out every workin
~. hour.
III Limerick hooks used to be popula
with fishermen, but the old town o
nu Ireland's west coast is now making b,
40 few fish-hooks for the world. TIL
price of some fish-hooks is but twent,
~ five cents per thousand, while twent,
90 five dollars has been paid for tho'
10 sand superb English hooks.
The manufacture OF fishing lines
h,a no small industry In this country. I'll
the best line Is made OF silk, oil ar
as wrapped linen line come next, an
ice there are hundred different grad'
the Of both the silk and linen lines. Mar
our OF the reels are costly. but reel CT
be bought for any price between TIVE
ty-five cents and fifty dollars.
All the silk-worm gut used In ma
eon ing leaders is imported from Swede
. and the cork floats are sent here fro
W England. The wooden floats are MAJ
80. In this country and cost about half
'o, much as cork floats. The United Stat
a.. manufactures all its own fishing file
=" which are made from feathers, 81
~, ~. and wool, and are shaped and hued
ION represent all kinds OF flying insect
IN and there are a dozen other things us
""s by anglers that keep many hands bu
W. making.
More fishing tackle is sold in t
'ays United States than In any other cou
ll,e try, and Philadelphia ranks with NJ
Won York in the making OF the Nations Il
ises rods, fish lines and fish fies.-Phi
ar's delphia Times
once He Saw Quaker.
but
,oen "Did YOU see any quakers In Phi