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species as rock bass, croppie, perch, etc., where a 

 landing-net is not required. 



In my opinion, all rods should have flush, non- 

 dowelled joints, with short, cylindrical ferrules, and 

 a plain grooved reel-seat, with reel-bands, instead 

 of the solid nickel-plated metal reel-seat that is 

 now put on the cheapest rods, in order to give 

 them an attractive appearance to the uninitiated. 

 All bait-rods mentioned, except those for tarpon 

 and heavy striped bass, are intended to be used 

 with one hand. 



The four- and six-section split bamboo rod, like 

 the multiplying reel, is an American invention. 

 An old trout fisher, gunsmith, and rod maker, 

 Samuel Phillippe, of Easton, Pennsylvania, made 

 four- and six-strip split bamboo rods as early, 

 certainly, as 1845, one of which is now in my 

 possession. There is no record of a rent and 

 glued-up cane rod in England prior to 1 847 ; and 

 these, like those exhibited at the World's Fair in 

 London in 1851, were composed of but three 

 sections or strips, and continued to be so made as 

 late, certainly, as 1852. 



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