REELS. 



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fishing with a double-handed rod. Indeed, even for light 

 salmon fishing, I have both used it myself and seen it used 

 successfully by others. No doubt the speciality of the reel is 

 for pike spinning, in which connection it is figured and de- 

 scribed in Vol. II., but for the convenience of trout and 

 salmon fishers the illustration is here repeated. 



SLATER'S 'COMBINATION KEEL. 



In order fully to adapt the Combination Reel to the require- 

 ments of the ordinary fly- and float-fisher, as well as to the troller, 

 the winder and axle, instead of being entirely of wood, as formerly 

 necessitating, of course, a large diameter are now also made, in 

 the form shown in the woodcuts, of wood and metal combined, by 

 which the diameter of the axle is reduced, and the reel so far in all 

 respects assimilated to the ordinary patterns of brass and bronze, 

 its speciality in regard to the Nottingham style of casting being of 



