Favorite Fish and Fishing 



multipliers are fitted with an adjustable 

 click, it can be utilized also for fly-fishing, 

 but it is rather heavy for the lightest fly- 

 rods. While an automatic reel answers 

 very well for trout fishing on small streams, 

 its spring is too light to control the move- 

 ments of a fish as large and gamesome as 

 the black bass. 

 Something It may not be amiss, in this connection, 



Reels °^ to venture a few remarks on reels in gen- 

 eral. Elsewhere I have made the state- 

 ment that the most important office of a 

 rod was in the management of the hooked 

 fish, and not in casting the fly or bait. Per 

 contra, the chief function of the multiply- 

 ing reel is in casting the bait, and not in 

 reeling in the fish. The office and inten- 

 tion of the gearing of the multiplying reel 

 is to prolong and sustain the initial momen- 

 tum of the cast, in order that the bait may 

 be projected to a greater distance than is 

 possible with any single-action reel. This 

 Is proven by the fact that there have been 

 several devices invented whereby the han- 

 dle, wheel and pinion of the reel are thrown 

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