ANGLING REQUISITES, FOR SEASON 1887. n 



The following appears in " Fishing Tackle: its Materials and 

 Manufactim-? by J. Harrington Keene. 



" In this recent development in solid wooded rods the inventor's 

 aim has been, first, strength and durability ; second, pliancy and light- 

 ness ; and, lastly, the consequent reduction of length and condensation 

 of power. That these objects have been attained . . . there 

 is ample testimony . . . continually accumulating from habitual 

 users. The presence of the steel core in the butt only serves to 

 strengthen a ten or eleven foot rod so as to render it capable of casting 

 an equal distance with an all-wood tool having 18 inches the advantage 

 in length, whilst lightness and precision in the output of line is more 

 marked in the case of the former. With two joints (out of a total of 

 three) steeled, these advantages are the more manifest. The spring 

 derived from the presence of the metal core has an effect difficult 

 verbally to describe such are the working results of the backbone thus 

 instilled. The easing nature upon the hand and arm incurred by its 

 use is so significant, that anything short of a practical test can only 

 impart an imperfect impression of its appreciable qualities. Wrist 

 action only is all that is called into play in the delivery of an average 

 output of line, and by this motion the perfect swing of the implement 

 pays forward the length equally with ease and precision. There is also 

 another advantage in the build of this rod. The reel is made inside 

 the butt, so to speak, and thus all the nuisance of the line entwining 

 round the reel is entirely avoided." 



Extract from the " English Fishing Gazette" 



The Editor says, " Foster's patent steel-centred fly rod is an 

 extremely neat little weapon, and throws a fly very nicely indeed. The 

 butt has a fine steel core which gives more spring and elasticity, com- 

 bined with strength, than one could otherwise get out of a rod of the 

 same size. We are told these rods have been received with great 

 approval. Some are fitted with the new centre-fitting winch, which is 

 the most perfect arrangement of the winch to prevent the line catching. 



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