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Fly-rods and Fly-tackle. 



The following illustration shows the most available 

 of the various sizes manufactured, and the numbers or 

 letters by which they are known to the trade. 



Fig. 17. 



Aside from the difference in diameter, two styles of 

 these lines are to be had : " tapered," in which the last 

 twenty feet or less is gradually diminished in thick- 

 ness by dropping out a strand at proper intervals ; and 

 "level," in which that dimension is uniform throughout. 



Which shall I use "tapered" or "level?" The answer 

 to this is not so simple as it might look. The tapered 

 line casts rather a lighter and neater fly, but is open to 

 the objections that not infrequently the tapered part 

 soon loses its strength. The first cost is also greater. 



