TROUT FLY-FISHING IN AMERICA 



a 7>4-ounce reel for a 5-ounce rod. As the weight of rod 

 decreases or increases some deviation must be allowed to 

 meet the change in weight and the individual require- 

 ments of the angler. 



Speaking of what weight of reel to use on Fly-Rods 

 it is interesting to note what one writer has to say upon 

 the subject. 



**Of course, always, the reel for a fly rod should be light, can- 

 not well be too light, though it should be large enough to spool 

 fifty yards of line." 



This statement that a reel to be used on a fly-rod 

 "should be light, cannot well be too light," so long as it 

 "be large enough to spool fifty yards of line," is funda- 

 mentally wrong in principle, although in some cases it 

 may suit the taste of a few anglers here and there. 



This must necessarily be the case from a scientific 

 standpoint, because the greater the weight of the rod, line 

 and leader forward of the casting hand, not balanced by 

 the weight of the rod, reel and line back of the casting 

 hand, the greater must be the strain placed upon the wrist 

 of the caster. This is due to the fact that weight is added 

 to the longer part of the rod which acts as a long lever 

 with the hand as a fulcrum without sufficient weight back 

 of the fulcrum point or hand to make a balance. 



If the reel used is as light or lighter than the rod, then 

 the rod is unbalanced in increasing proportion as the 

 reel used decreases in weight and moves the balance point 



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