BAIT-CASTING OUTFIT FOR BEGINNER 3 

 REEL IS THE HEAVY WORKER 



For a reel you will want a quadruple multiplying, 

 or, in other words, " old boss," one that makes four 

 revolutions of the core of the reel to one turn of the 

 handle that's for speed in giving you casting dis- 

 tance and also to retrieve the line quickly with the 

 smallest amount of hand work. 



By far the biggest end of the bait-casting work 

 depends upon the reel, which is the most important 

 item in the outfit. The average day's fishing runs 

 about six hours of continuous casting, at all of which 

 time the reel is hard at work playing out line and 

 recovering it. This is a steady grind and the reel 

 must be a good one to stand up under the strain. 

 This only goes to show that a poorly constructed 

 reel will shortly throw up the sponge with a few 

 wheezy shrieks, and about that time, far away from 

 a tackle outfitter, you will let out a few choice cuss 

 words and give it the Christy Mathewson into the 

 weed beds. 



There are many good reels that you can get, rang- 

 ing from $4 to $7.50, and they will all do the work 

 and do it well. The Meisselbach " take-a-part " is 

 a humdinger and creases your bank roll to the ex- 

 tent of $5.50. I have a " take-a-part " in my kit, 

 been there doing service for eight years and is still 

 on the job; as a matter of fact I think it has done 



