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looks, with the Tonkin on the inside of the joints, 

 for service, making the Calcutta strips exceedingly 

 thin a mere veneer. Double-built construction is 

 not practicable for top-joints except the very heav- 

 iest. 



A brief description here of the various classes of 

 rods, their dimensions and distinctive uses, will be 

 appropriate. Rods for fresh-water angling com- 

 prise trout fly-rods, salmon rods, bait-rods, and the 

 Kalamazoo or short rod that in recent years has 

 been designated as the " bait-casting " rod. Certain 

 kinds either of live or artificial bait are properly 

 cast with the standard, long bait-rod and at times 

 the quarry is thus more pleasurably played, and in a 

 manner more sportsmanlike; but the distinctive ap- 

 pellation of " bait-casting " rod has come to denote 

 a stiffish, short implement, preferably between the 

 length limits of five to six feet, and which is used for 

 casting particularly the heavier kinds of artificial 

 bait more frequently a wooden minnow or some 

 other form of " plug " the line running directly 

 from a quadruple-multiplying reel as the cast is made. 

 It is a Western style, very effective in bass fishing 

 under certain conditions, is favored by many anglers 

 for maskinonge in preference to trolling, and has 

 been adopted to some extent even for trout and for 

 salt-water fishing. It requires a distinctive and very 

 interesting technic, and the sport also is similar to 

 fishing with the artificial fly in that the angler goes 



