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ANGLING FOR PIKE. 



enoTigli to hold 100yds. of line, large in the barrel, so that it 

 winds up the line quickly, and so arranged that the line can 

 neither uncoil off it nor foul round it. A well-made Notting- 

 ham reel with a check and a line-guard has all these qualities 

 except the last-mentioned one, and that can be obtained by 

 a little device to be mentioned anon. Fig. 7 is engraved 

 from a very beautiful — and, alas ! very expensive — patent 

 Nottingham reel called the "Sun." It is peculiar in having 

 a metal rim on the inside of back-plate, and also a metal 



inner revolving plate, which 

 prevents all possibility of 

 warping or sticking. In Fig. 8 

 is shown a Nottingham reel 

 fitted with a little invention of 

 my own, intended to prevent 

 the line uncoiling (as dressed 

 lines frequently will) off the 

 reel. This line - guard has 

 answered beyond my expec- 

 tations. It can be fitted to 

 any wooden reel by a watch- 

 maker or any metal-worker 

 for a few pence. 



Slater, of Newark-on-Trent, 

 sells a very excellent patent 

 combniation reel, having a movable check and a line-guard. 

 There is nothing to choose between his guard and the one I 

 have described, beyond the question of cost. I have quite 

 recently been trying a reel of novel construction, which seems 

 to have all the good qualities of both the ordinary and the 

 Nottingham reels. It has a large barrel, is made of vulcanite 

 and metal, has bars across to prevent the line unwinding, and 

 has a movable check. The point of novelty in it is a sort of 

 brake, which, on being pressed by the little finger, checks the 

 reel to any extent desired. I believe it is to be called the 

 brake reel. Inexpensive Nottingham reels with movable checks 

 are sold by nearly all tackle-makers. All reels should he 

 taken to pieces and well vaselined or oiled twice a year. 



Fig. 8. Nottingham Reel, with the 

 Author's Line-guard and Movable 

 Check. 



