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Information on Carrying Fish Baskets Bags.
Carrying Fish Baskets and Bags If the catch be a good one, especially of salmon, it is practi cally out of the question for the fisherman to carry them him self from place to place and fish at the same time. ' Necessitas non habet legs,' as a friend of mine once doglatinised it, and these conditions are, of course, also a law unto themselves. In trout fishing, or where the spoils are not likely to be weighty, the bank flyfisher, and also the worm-fisher, will probably very often have to carry his fish himself. For this pur pose bags and baskets ' many and great ' are sold at the tackle a A convenient-sized. THE FREKE BAG Freke bag for the ordinary purposes of the trout fisher is about i foot 7 inches wide by, say, 14 inches deep. The weight in this size should not exceed i Ib. 10 oz. The shoulder strap or rather webbing, for leather' soddens' should be 2 inches wide, and in larger sizes 2 or 3 inches. A ' Carry-all ' basket (see page 104) of something like corresponding capacity weighs 3 Ibs. Shops, but that they are most of them defective in some points in which they might have been perfected, goes without saying. In fact, as regards the bags (which for bank-fishing purposes are perhaps preferable), I find them mostly to suffer the dis ability of coming to pieces if not the first time they had a good catch to carry, at any rate, after, say, a few days or weeks of real hard wear and tear ; others, again, let the slime and drip pings ooze through. After trying various patterns, including one of my own, figured in the first edition, I am disposed to think that for combined strength and simplicity, and taking one day's fishing with another, nothing beats,or perhaps equals, the 4 Freke bag,' as it is called, which is, or should be, made double. That is, there are two bags, in fact, buttoned together at the side edges : one bag, of strong waterproof cloth, fitted with a flap, and the other the inner one with the mouth left open, so to speak, although kept practically closed when carried by the combined action of its own weight and that of the shoulder-straps passing through two metal rings at the top. One of the bags can be used for carrying fish, the other for tackle, lunch, &c. ; or, at a pinch, both may be used for fish. The bag without the covering flap is moreover so constructed that if an unexpectedly large fish be caught its head and tail will project through the openings left at the top of the sides. There is, however, one drawback to the * bag ' when you have caught nothing it exposes the nakedness of the land ! The ' Usk ' basket, made by Farlow, which is carried over the shoulder of the attendant by means of a stout handle, some two feet long, resting on a leather shoulder-pad, is the best special arrangement I have met with for the purpose. A basket of this form 32 inches long by about 15 deep will carry half-a-dozen moderate-sized salmon or pike comfortably the comfort including that of the attendant, on whose shoulders the mechanical adjustment of the crutch or handle, having a Soft leather shoulder-pad under it, makes it sit as lightly as possible. Some fishermen consider that the 'appearance ' of the fish is better preserved in a creel or basket, than in a bag in which they are liable to be occasionally squashed or squeezed out of shape. Each of the following creels contains some commend able features of novelty. Fig. I represents what is known as 'Hardy's Carry-all Creel.' It is made, it will be observed, in two pieces or com partments, the object being to carry the fish in the lower, and the luncheon, tackle box, &c., in the upper part. The tackle & co. Made by a double back the lunch case, book, and flask being fitted into separate compartments. For all sorts of boat work a basket is to be preferred to a bag.
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