REEL FASTENINGS. 71 



Next as to reel fastenings i.e. the attachment of the reel 

 to the rod. 



The antiquated, double-band attachment, has the ineradi- 

 cable vice of being suited only to one particular 

 sized reel, and is now obsolete except for rods 

 of the commonest class. My prediction in the 

 first edition of this volume is therefore fulfilled. 

 All the old reel-fastenings have, in fact, been 

 superseded by systems of attachment capable of 

 taking with equal ease almost any-sized reel 

 or reel-plate. 



One I think the first of these modern reel- 

 fastenings is that known as 'Weeger's Wedge- 

 fast,' adopted by Messrs. Hardy for most of their 

 rods. It is simple and safe, and capable, as I say, 

 of being adapted to almost every size of reel, 

 short of applying a heavy salmon reel to a 

 light trouting rod, which would be useless if 

 feasible. B I 



The lower end of the reel-plate is pushed 

 under a fixed clasp with a gradually widening 

 opening upwards (and of course a narrowing 

 one downwards) in other words, it is wedged 

 fast. 



Messrs. Farlow subsequently brought out || 

 their ' Universal Winch fitting,' which possesses 

 the same merits as the ' Wedge-fast,' the differ- , WEEGER - S 

 ence being that the wedge for the reel-plate \\-EDGE-FAST.' 

 is obtained by a graduated depression in the 

 wood of the butt itself. 



UNIVERSAL' WINCH FITTING. 



