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being taken from the reel by the hand before each subse- 

 quent cast, while the click offers the necessary resistance 

 to the rendering of the line to permit this to be done 

 without overrunning. 



As the multiplying reel is made wide, so as to allow for 

 the thumbing of the spool, and as this necessity is not 

 required in the click-reel, the latter is made quite narrow, 

 thus permitting the line to be reeled without bunching, 

 and, at the same time, allow of its being reeled rapidly 

 enough for all practical purposes, without a multiplying 

 action ; for the main object of a multiplying-reel, is for 

 rapidity of action in casting, and not in retrieving the line, 

 as is often erroneously supposed. 



After a fish is hooked, a click-reel answers the purpose 

 of playing, and landing it, as well as the best triple or 

 quadruple multiplier made — if not better ; for often a fish 

 is reeled in by main strength with a rapid multiplier, and 

 an attempt made to land it before it has been killed on 

 the rod, thus curtailing the real sport of angling, and at a 

 great risk to the angler's tackle. I speak of this now, for 

 I have heard anglers praising a rajnd-working quadruple 

 multiplying-reel, because they could reel in a fish "so 

 fast," basing all of its merits upon this one quality; the 

 desire to get possession of the fish seeming to be paramount 

 to the real sport of hooking and playing it. 



The Click-Keel. 



The click-reel is a single-action reel, and, consequently, 

 is the simplest form of reel, from the fact that the service 

 required of it is simply a slow and gradual lengthening of 

 the line with each subsequent cast; the delivery of the fly 



