SPLIT-BAMBOO BAIT-CASTING RODS 



Without a doubt, Old Timer, the one-piece rod is 

 the ideal bait caster, but when it comes to toting it 

 around, it is the unhandiest article one could find in 

 a year's travel. You simply cannot tote it along on 

 a trip without the haunting fear that someone will 

 assist you to break it, but once on the water with a 

 little old one-piece split-bamboo rod, it shows up 

 like four-of-a-kind after a lean run. For the perma- 

 nent fishing camp or the chap that is lucky enough 

 to live right close to good fishing waters, there is no 

 better rod than the one-piece. It is full of action 

 from the butt to the tip, and is not weakened at any 

 point by a ferrule. You can sure play a scrappy fish 

 to a fare-you-well with a one-piece rod, and were it 

 not for the fact that it is so unhandy, and for that 

 reason not desirable for ordinary use, more of them 

 would be used by the fishing gentry. 



TWO-PIECE ROD A DINGER 



For the two-piece rod there is but one style of 

 construction that should be considered, and that is 

 the short butt and long tip. A rod of this kind 

 comes the nearest to having the same amount of ac- 

 tion and strength as the one-piece rod, as the ferrule 

 is set well down below the center, allowing the strain 



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