CHAPTER III 



ROD, REEL, AND LINE 



Analogy from Golf Built-Cane Greenheart Other Woods 

 A Delicate Instrument "Balance" Flexibility 

 How Distributed Grip of the Rod Throwing a Fly- 

 Correct Casting Rare Tapered Lines and Untapered 

 An Accidental Solution. 



A FIRST-CLASS authority, Mr. John James Hardy, 

 has said that " one sixty-fourth part of an inch 

 more or less in the butt of an eighteen-feet rod will 

 make or mar that rod." The statement may be 

 astonishing ; but it will not be scouted by fishermen 

 who have used many rods observantly. Implements 

 of certain recreations have subtle qualities which, 

 though the study of many years might not give 

 perfect understanding of them, are sometimes re- 

 vealed by happy accident. Take, for example, golf. 

 Not long ago a friend told me that he had become 

 a member of the Hampstead Club. Would I go, 

 there and then, to try the course ? My sticks were 

 not within easy reach. " O, never mind," was the 

 cheerful answer. "I'll get the professional to lend 

 you a set." Off we went, then, and soon were at 



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