Hi Everyone
I was talking to the fellow that invented that contraption. I thought it might be another thing hanging from my vest to catch on. But then again I dislike change.
John Dunn
They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax.
Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,