FISHING REELS 



HAVING been a close student of rods 

 and reels for thirty years, the follow- 

 ing remarks are the result of much 

 practical experience, and are offered 

 without prejudice, but with my personal preference. 

 The earliest mention of a fishing reel that I am 

 aware of is that recorded in the " Compleat Angler " 

 by Izaak Walton, who states, as a matter of hearsay, 

 that a " wheel " was sometimes placed about two 

 feet from the butt of the rod for winding up the line. 

 He did not employ one himself, and probably never 

 saw it used, or he would have been more explicit 

 concerning it. The wheel mentioned was doubtless 

 a solid wooden one, of large diameter, with a deep 

 groove in its peripheral border for the line. Such 

 a winch is in common use to-day in England, and 

 is known as the Nottingham reel. 



There are three kinds of 

 reels employed in angling : 

 the click reel, the multiply- 

 ing reel, and the automatic reel. The simplest 

 form is the click reel, which is intended only for 



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