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trolling or Trout fly-fishing with a double-handed rod. For 

 a light salmon or grilse rod a 4 5 -inch reel will generally be 

 found about the most convenient size, but they are made up 

 to 5 inches. After continuous wetting, these reels should be 

 taken apart and carefully dried and oiled all over, otherwise 

 they are apt to swell and 'stick.' 



For salmon reels proper we have an embarras dc choix. 

 First there is the good old substantial fit-for-any-work ' London- 

 made reel,' differing in no particular way from any other of 

 the ordinary reels of commerce (of the form and semblance 



PATENT LEVER SALMON WINCH. 



With adjustable check, worked by the fingers. 



Size in inches 35 3^ 4 4$ 4^ 



Weights . ilb. i Ib. 3023. lib. 5025. i Ib. 8 ozs. i Ib. nozs. 



with which we are familiar), except in the matter of weight. 

 In this respect, as generally made for salmon- fishing, it has 

 an easy ' walk-over.' It is so solid as to be quite capable, at 

 a pinch, of knocking holes in an obtrusive boulder or two, or 

 ' taking it out ' of anything else, mineral or animal including the 

 muscles of its owner. A reel of this class of the best quality, 

 having plate of 4^ inches in diameter of side-plate, will weigh 

 about i Ib. ii ozs., or, with a proper complement of line added, 



