Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-13
FISHING rAcklr
Nv and Where hods. HoaI.
Reels and Floats Are MAI.

'D'S NJ" hiohts Are Made
ne gfadetf American fishing tackle
idyances steadily, and SO does the ooa.
u many cases. but there was BttIa
comment when well-know noIitic;aa
VINO used TO angle for minnows IN III
.hi.dnood with bent pin, sugar cord
anu inc branch OF tree, paid $3.50 for
nshing rod the other day that a firm
at Sixth and Market streets had mad
Tor him. 1t was one of the best snl;t
BAMBOO poles that was ever made in
this city. -
rev people know the time and from
PIE IL takes to make a good bamboo
ishlng-rod. The bamboo is imported
In big cargoes from Calcutta. Indi.
ne wood has to be well-seasoned, and
Tor two weeks the bamboo is dried nv
steam. The rod is then split into six
isngths and cut into three sections and
again dried for two weeks. The spliced
pieces are glued together, and it STAYS
~ 'he glue for month and is then
wrapped with silk.
1t Is afterward jointed with ferrules
linen 1t goes through the yarnisbino
process and receives four coats, each
coat OF varnish being given week n
airy. The pole is afterward given a
putt or handle Of ash, celluloid or
pearl, and at the end OF about three
months, and when the pole has zone
through the hand of six workbench II
is finished. The rod must be plant as
coach whip. bending from butt to
UP. Many poles are ruined in the proc
ess OIL manufacture. The price of
spit bamboo poles run from Sc to $50.
but poles have been known to cost al.
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
South America in spars The rod
maker has the spars sawed m
Lance-wood must have good season.
ing and frequently half of it is a
DEAD loss. When the rod has been
trimmed and turned by machinery, it
Is sand-papered and cut into three or
four sections and jointed; then it is
ferruled, wrapped with silk or linen
thread, and vanished three times.
Inc lance-wood rods cost from four
TO ten dollars. The cheap rods are
made OF ash and other common woods.
with three joints, brass ferrules, and
can be bought as low as one dollar
dozen.
Almost all the hooks used in this
country come from England, although
factory at New Haven, Conn, is
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 the
finely-tempered steel from which it is
made. The English hook won't snap
off like the American hooks. There
is no steel equal to it made in this
country, and it costs too much to i'm
port the English steel and make the
hooks here for the American market.
All the English hooks are made in
Red-ditch, dirty-looking little town
in Worcestershire, just over the coun-
ty border from Birmingham. There
is no hotel in the town, which is al
most hidden in day by the smoke
from the seven fsh-hook factories of
the place Over nine hundred people
of little Red-ditch are every day kept
busy making fish hooks and needles
The finely-tempered steel is run out
into long wire. Different machinery
cuts and turns the wire into fish
hooks of all sizes, and one thousand
hooks are turned out every working
hour.
Limerick hooks used to be popular
with fishermen, but the old town on
Ireland's west coast is now making but
few fish-hooks for the world. The
price OF some fish-hooks is but twenty
five cents per thousand, while twenty
five dollars has been paid for thou
sand superb English hooks.
The manufacture of fishing lines is
no small industry in this country. The
best line is made of silk, oil and
wrapped linen line come next, and
there are hundred different grades
of both the silk and linen lines. Many
of the reels are costly, but reel can
be bought for any price between twen-
ty-five cents and fifty dollars.
All the silk-worm gut used in MAX
ing leaders is imported from Sweden,
and the cork floats are sent here from
England. The wooden floats are made
in this country and cost about half as
much as cork floats. The United States
manufactures all its own fishing flies,
which are made from feathers, silk
and wool, and are shaped and hued to
represent all kinds of flying insects,
and there are dozen other things used
by anglers that keep many hands busy
making.
More fishing tackle is sold in the
United States than in any other coun-
try, and Philadelphia ranks with New
York in the making of the Nations fish
rods, fish lines and fish flies.-PhiIG-
delphia Times
He Saw a Quaker.