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agant. My best advice to anglers is, if you desire to 

 eliminate thumbing, investigate these two reels. 



In concluding, let me say, that the modern Redifer 

 reel is made in combination with the Enterprise 

 Mfg. Co., Akron, Ohio, as the name on the head- 

 plate would indicate "Pflueger-Redifor," and can, 

 I believe, be secured from either firm. The fact of 

 the matter is, the genius of both firms enter into the 

 construction of the reel; but if you desire a free-spool 

 Redifor, you must correspond with the Ohio firm. 



But what about the u no sportsman" allegation 

 sometimes hurled against those rodsters who use the 

 auto style of reel? To a certain type of mind any 

 innovation is unsportsmanlike. We all remember 

 when the first pump shot guns were produced what a 

 cry was raised against them, no "true sportsman" 

 would be guilty of employing such a weapon in duck 

 shooting; again, when the automatic was brought 

 out, the same note sounded. Now, we admit that a 

 gunner may employ a pump gun or automatic if he 

 choose and violate no ethics of sport. Because an 

 individual of porcine proclivities, employing a certain 

 instrument can gratify the demands of his base na- 

 ture, is no reason why a true sportsman could not 

 use the same instrument rightly. 



Personally I can not understand why one should 

 object to the newer reels upon the ground of sports- 

 manship. What if they do do all the work? If a 

 man does not want to spend the time necessary to be- 



