52 MODERN PRACTICAL ANGLER, 
tution of the stiff top for the two upper joints, it becomes 
a trolling and spinning rod of about the stiffness I find 
preferable ; perhaps, however, it would be less stiff than 
trollers generally are accustomed to; in which case, a 
few inches more or less taken off the top would make it 
of any stiffness required, or extra tops of greater stiff- 
ness could be added. This rod is also fit for spinning 
for Salmon, and for heavy paternosting or legering. 
On replacing the original joints, and taking off the 
large joint and butt, and substituting the smaller butt, a 
single-handed fly-rod is formed, which I confess I 
prefer—as I do also the spinning-rod—to any other in 
my possession. By a slight change of tops this rod 
can be made suitable for any kind of float or punt- 
fishing ; or if a longer rod is preferred, a substitution of 
the large butt and joint for the small butt, will lengthen 
it by about 3 feet. I am aware that it has often been 
said to be impossible to produce such a rod as that 
described without sacrificing the fly-rods to the 
trolling-rod, or the trolling-rod to the fly-rods, or both 
to the bottom-rod. All I can say is, that it has been 
done; and that Mr. Farlow, who made the rod for me, 
has the measurements, and will, doubtless, be happy 
to give sceptical anglers an ocular demonstration of 
the fact: experto crede. 
