FISHING KEELS. 95 



MuLTiPLYixu Reels. 



But the greatest advance, perhaps, has been made in the 

 direction of multiplying reels for Black Bass fishing. 

 There are now a half dozen reels in the market, from which 

 the angler may take his choice, with the positive assurance, 

 and Avith the utmost confidence, that he is sure to get one 

 that will fully answer his purpose, however he mny choose. 

 Among so many really good ones, comparisons are indeed 

 odious, and it is simply a matter of taste as to which is 

 selected. 



The " Henshall-Van Antwerp " reel is manufactured by 

 Thos. H. Chubb, of Post Mills, Vermont. The reel was 

 designed by Dr. Wm. Van Antwerp, of Mt. Sterling, Ken- 

 tucky (one of the Fish Commissioners of that state) and 

 myself. It is a perfectly symmetrical reel, the end plates 

 being struck up so as to form, with the spool plates, a con- 

 cavity at each end, in one of which is placed the gearing, 

 and the adjustable click and automatic drag in the other. 



The automatic drag was designed to meet the require- 

 ments of those anglers who can not educate the thumb to 

 control the rendering of the line in casting the minnow. 

 For my own use I prefer, as does any expert, a very rapid 

 multiplier without click or drag of any kind, in bait fish- 

 ing; but there are good anglers who can not, for some rea- 

 son, successfully acquire the knack of thumbinst the spool 

 in a satisfactory manner, and the line will overrun and 

 snarl, and the spool backlash in spite of their most patient 

 and persistent efforts. To meet this difficulry the automatic 

 drag acts in the place of the thumb, as the amount of press- 

 ure brought to bear upon the spool can be regulated, auto- 

 matically, by a sliding button on the side of the reel, and 



