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catching on the handle. Their thirty or forty yards reels 

 are the correct sizes for Black Bass fly-fishing. 



The " Leonard reel," sold by this firm, is probably the 

 lightest metal click-reel manufactured, and holds a great 

 deal of line for its size, being of good width. It also has 

 a flush handle to prevent fouling of the line ; two and a 

 half inch diameter is the preferred size for Black Bass 

 angling. 



Conroy, Bissett & Malleson, of New York, A. B. Ship- 

 ley & Son, of Philadelphia, and Bradford & Anthony, of 

 Boston, also furnish the best reels and other tackle for 

 fly-fishing. I think it but simple justice that all of these 

 houses, who are by an honorable competition doing so much 

 for the angler in the way of producing the most elegant 

 and suitable tackle, should be brought to the notice of the 

 angling fraternity. 



On this point a veteran angler, the editor of the Rich- 

 mond (Va.) Whig, becoming " impressed with the vast 

 amount of industry, skill, talent, enterprise and genius, 

 and philanthropy (emphatically) devoted to this task of 

 supplying the needs and luxuries, and augmenting the 

 pleasures of the sporting community," further says : 

 " We say philanthropy, with emphasis — for those who thus 

 toil for the enjoyment and happiness of their fellow-beings 

 can not be enemies of their kind. But admit that self 

 enters as an element of the motive, in an enlarged sense, 

 it may be truly afiirmed that self, if not a virtue in itself, 

 is next kin to it, and is the basis and promj;ter of all the 

 virtues." 



Multiplying Reels. 

 The multiplying reel is a decided improvement on the 



