514 



AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



feet in length, and of course is very powerful and satis- 

 factory. 



For my own part I prefer a double-action, solid-wood 

 greenheart rod, for Salmon, built on the "Castle-Connell" 



principle. Doubtless a little fur- 

 ther explanation will be accept- 

 able to the amateur. By double- 

 action is meant a rod with rather 

 exaggerated resiliency, insomuch 

 that its tip, when striking a fish, 

 first goes forward and then back- 

 ward — i.e., its action is double. 

 The "Castle-Connell" rods are 

 also without ferrules, the joints 

 being put together by splicing (see 

 fig. 3); hence a most important 

 feature, elasticity, is preserved 

 along the v;///;v IctigtJi of the rod, 

 and not interfered with by the 

 SU unyielding ferrule. There is also 

 in this rod considerable play in 

 the butt-joint, which is not the 

 case with the ordinary make. I 

 have just received one from "Joe" 

 Dalzel], of St. Johns, N. B.— the 

 best Salmon-rod maker I know of, 

 and with it a few of "Joe's" senti- 

 ments on spliced rods. He 

 says — and I fully concur: "I 

 Fig- 3- think there is no rod like a 

 spliced rod. Of course I have to make ferruled rods, but I 

 'cuss' when I come to put a strain on them, to see two stiff 

 parts in the rod (the ferrules). In making my rods I glue 

 them up the full length— sixteen feet, or whatever it may be 

 and then work all down together, so I am sure that every 



