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not overrun but will still pay out freely enough to 

 deliver the bait at a distance from the reel. Of 

 course, every one of these appliances takes off a lit- 

 tle from the ultimate capacity of the reel as to dis- 

 tance and delicacy. All the records have been made 

 without any such appliances attached to the reel. 



None the less the improved casting-reel seems 

 to be here to stay, as well as the improved casting 

 rod. You can even find good reels made with a free 

 spindle that is to say, one which does not revolve 

 its gear but only its spindle when you cast out the 

 line, but which engages the gears when you begin 

 to wind in. Whether or not all these things are 

 according to Hoyle, or even in accord with the ul- 

 timate ethics of the art, we need not inquire. No 

 doubt if appliances could be made to alter the ancient 

 tools of the game of golf, men would not be want- 

 ing who would use them. This is the practical day 

 and age of the world. 



When it comes to catching fish, thirty, forty, or 

 fifty feet will kill bass, but thirty, forty, or fifty 

 yards will kill more bass if one can cast a straight 

 line'and be in control of his bait all the time. Per- 

 haps the early users of the Kentucky reel found a 

 hundred feet far enough to do the work. In the 

 later days of competitive angling, club tournaments, 

 casting for medals, and the like, the art of bait 



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