WINDINGS AND GUIDES 



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The same concern makes also of similar material 

 splendidly efficient and durable butt-guides, and reel- 

 guides that may be attached to a 

 cross-bar. For the other (interme- 

 diate) guides on your fly-rod you 

 want a standing form of guide that 

 is called the " snake " guide, and 

 these to be of steel and not of Ger- 

 man-silver, which latter soon is 

 grooved by the friction of the line. 

 Snake-guides were once an English 

 innovation but long have ceased to "Perfection" steel 



c . tip-guide for fly-rod 



be a novelty, being almost univer- (enlarged) 

 sally used today on all makes of the highest-class 

 rods; both in appearance and utility they are 

 a great advance over the old ring-and-keeper de- 



$ 4 3 2 I I/O 2/0 3/tt 



Modern steel snake-guides and old ring-and-keeper device 



vice. The line is not so likely to foul them, and 

 it renders much more freely through them, so that 



