FISHING TACKLE AND HOW TO MAKE IT. 



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reel-seat. Then again the band is forever working up, 

 unless it fits very tight; and who amongst my experi- 

 enced readers has not met with that awful catastrophe 

 a disengaged reel, just loosened at the period of greatest 

 agony and excitement, when the fish is 

 doing his best to run all the line out? 

 Even now I could groan at the loss of one 

 mighty Salmo at least, through this very 

 cause. 



American ingenuity, however, comes to 

 the rescue again (fig. 18). The upper and 

 lower receptacle for the plate-ends are 

 tapered hence they can take from the least 

 to the largest, and the upper band is mov- 

 able. It is shown at A. Moreover, behind 

 it is placed an ingenious clutch which is 

 shown out of gear in A, and in situ in the 

 larger diagram (fig. 18). I have seen it on 

 Trout, Bass and Salmon rods, and it works 

 like a charm. 



HOW TO MAKE A ROD. 



In the following directions for the making 

 of rods I shall purposely place myself in the 

 position of a novice who has never made a 

 rod, but has ingenuity and some mechanical 

 aptitude. Machinery is rapidly taking the 

 place of manual labor, and the various 

 I7 . parts of most of the rods we see are made 



by that method. There is, however, great pleasure if not 

 profit in the construction of the weapon with which you in- 

 tend to slay the coming summer's monarch of the brook; 

 and it will be all the more valued if its manufacture is 

 completely your own that is, as far as may be, for I do 



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