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AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



feet in length, and of course is very powerful and satis- 

 factory. 



For my own part I prefer a double-action, solid-wood 

 greenheart rod, for Salmon, built on the "Castle-Connell" 



principle. Doubtless a little fur- 

 ther explanation will be accept- 

 able to the amateur. By double- 

 action is meant a rod with rather 

 exaggerated resiliency, insomuch 

 that its tip, when striking a fish, 

 first goes forward and then back- 

 ward i.e., its action is double. 

 The "Castle-Connell" rods are 

 also without ferrules, the joints 

 being put together by splicing (see 

 fig. 3); hence a most important 

 feature, elasticity, is preserved 

 along the entire length of the rod, 

 and not interfered with by the 

 unyielding ferrule. There is also 

 in this rod considerable play in 

 the butt-joint, which is not the 

 case with the ordinary make. I 

 have just received one from "Joe" 

 Dalzell, of St. Johns, N. B. the 

 best Salmon-rod maker I know of, 

 and with it a few of "Joe's" senti- 

 ments on spliced rods. He 

 says and I fully concur: "I 

 think there is no rod like a 

 spliced rod. Of course I have to make ferruled rods, but I 

 'cuss' when I come to put a strain on them, to see two stiff 

 parts in the rod (the ferrules). In making my rods I glue 

 them up the full length -sixteen feet, or whatever it may be 

 and then work all down together, so I am sure that every 



