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it, and clean it thoroughly with a piece of soft 

 matchwood. Wipe it as clean as you can. Use 

 the thinnest of oil and then wipe the oil off. When 

 you put the reel together be careful to screw down 

 with equal firmness all of the screws in the end 

 plates. If one screw is tighter than the others, 

 the plate will bind and the reel will not run free. 



We are talking now of a high-grade, delicately 

 adjusted reel. You may get many of more modern 

 makes, not so delicately adjusted, which will give 

 you less trouble perhaps reels which you can take 

 apart, rub down with a rag, oil abundantly, and 

 put together again without any trouble. Take your 

 choice as to these. If you are a good angler and 

 true, in time you will have many reels, many rods 

 and many ideas; for this angling, whether with fly 

 rod or bait rod, is a many-sided matter, and he who 

 would lay down his own dictum for the following 

 of others lacks wisdom in the first part and will 

 always lack following in the second. 



The modern tackle store usually is equipped with 

 bait casting tackle according to the modern ideas 

 short rods, large guides, cheap reels, fool-proof 

 appliances against back-lashing, good lines, and an 

 unending multiplicity of baits, each one of which 

 is guaranteed to beat all others in its alluring quality. 

 It is not true that any of these painted plugs will 



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