4 LAKE AND STREAM GAME FISHING 



more casting than any of my reels. It is built right 

 and if you just must find out what makes it go, you 

 can take it apart without a screw driver and put 'er 

 together again and know that you cannot mix its " in- 

 nards." For this reason alone the inquisitive fisher- 

 man should have it, because a reel can be put out of 

 whack easier by tinkering than most anything. 



The Shakespeare Standard Professional is a clean 

 running reel and nicks you to the tune of $6, but it's 

 worth it and a good caster. The Milan, Meek and 

 Talbot reels around the same figure are very good 

 ones, and are worthy of a place in any tackle box. 



GOOD-BY TO BACK-LASHES 



If you are shy on time to practice thumbing the 

 ordinary reel, and you don't want to bother with 

 " back-lashes," which happen more or less to even 

 the sure-enough fishermen, you can get an antiback- 

 lash reel and start casting with practically no prac- 

 tice. The South Bend Antiback-lash at $9.00 and 

 the Pflueger-Redifor Antiback-lash at $7.50 are both 

 good ones, and take a lot of trouble off your hands. 

 For moonlight and night casting you will find the 

 antiback-lash a winner, and that is the time to hook 

 the big ones. It's mighty unhandy to try to untangle 

 a back-lash by the light of a pocket flash lamp, espe- 

 cially when the bass are hopping up out of the water 

 all around you; sort of makes you nervous, and the 

 more you untangle the worse it tangles. 



