FISHING THE PACIFIC 



job on all his reels. I like them more with the Penn the older 

 I get. 



The great Fin-Nor reel is now being manufactured by the 

 Tycoon Rod Company in Miami. They still put out their 

 regular-size reel, which is between a 12/0 and 14/0 and also 

 manufacture special orders of a very large 4/0 reel that is 

 approximately equivalent to the 6/0 Vom Hofe. You can't 

 beat the big Fin-Nor's for a good smooth drag and fine han- 

 dling reel. Aiike Lerner, Alfred Glassell, and many other 

 anglers swear by them. If I owned a 14/0 I would naturally 

 use it with 54-thread. If I were located around the tuna 

 nets in Nova Scotia when net fishing I would use 39- 

 thread line on my 14/0. The 14/0 also, of course, recovers 

 the 39-thread more rapidly than 12/0 because of the larger 

 gear ratio. This is a mighty important point to remember in 

 using all sizes of line on different size reels. It is a trick that 

 every experienced angler knows, particularly the crack light- 

 tackle men who have learned from doing. Put more line on 

 the reel or use the larger reel to get line back faster. Keep this 

 in mind the next time you go out to buy a reel. This is the 

 reason that we use 3 -thread line on 6/0 reels, with backing. 



On big fish I would never use any reel smaller than a 6/0. 

 On my 12/0 I always use 39-thread line and 24-thread hne. 

 Mrs. Farrington puts 24- on a 12/0 for big fish. The 12/0 

 Vom Hofe take six hundred 39-thread and eight hundred 

 24-thread. I have owned one of my 12/0 Vom Hofe's since 

 1929 and it is still as good as new. These 1 2/0 reels are, I feel, 

 big enough to take fish of any size in any waters of the world. 



In the modern school of fighting the fish a comparatively 

 light drag is often kept on the reel, heavy pressure being put 



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