THE BAIT-CASTING REEL 



There is one part of your bait-casting outfit that 

 sure must be right in material and workmanship, Old 

 Scout, or you might as well make up your mind that 

 your bait-casting days will be a grand old series of 

 backlashes and cuss words, and that little old im- 

 portant feature is your reel. You can slip a set of 

 guides on a cane or any old stick and with a good 

 free-running reel make a cast, but without a reel that 

 runs smooth and even, your bait casting will be one 

 darrted bit of trouble after another, and to save your 

 standing in the home burg you'll go back to still fish- 

 ing and lead a peaceful, quiet life. When you figure 

 the amount of work the reel performs in a single 

 day's casting, taking an average of six hours for 

 actual casting, you get some idea of the heavy tax 

 placed on the bearings and gears as it sticks to the 

 job of shooting out the line at a high speed and re- 

 trieving it. A slipshod, poorly constructed reel, 

 carelessly thrown together, will cough up its gears 

 after an hour or so, and it's good night to your 

 fishing trip. 



THE QUADRUPLE MULTIPLIER 



The quadruple multiplying reel and the short rod 

 have put bait casting in the past few years in first 



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