THE CASTING REEL 63 



thing for the caster again to remember when he de- 

 sires to think only of the bass. 



I tried out several attachments all of which 

 worked more or less successfully to a greater or less 

 degree, but none were satisfactory to me; they were 

 attachments. There is a vast difference between an 

 attachment and a level winding devise built in, a 

 component part of the reel. 



It is hardly necessary to give a history of the 

 Shakespeare level-winder and of the Marhoff inven- 

 tion, similar, save that the former employs a double 

 propelling screw, while the latter uses but one. It 

 is a built-in devise, all mechanism being encased in 

 the head of the reel. A pinion at the rear of the 

 driving gear meshes with the line-carriage screw- 

 pinion which drives the line-guide back and forth 

 along the endless screw. This line-guide must travel 

 whenever the reel handle is turned; there is no dis- 

 connecting or throwing it out of gear. It would seem 

 that the double propeller would be the stronger reel, 

 but the single has greater line capacity in the same 

 size. On the inner side of the line-carriage pawl, is 

 the carriage-pin, playing in the endless screw. 

 Really, it is all very simple. 



To the complaint sometimes made that there is 

 too much "trigging" about the level winder, I would 

 say that I have used them for a number of years 

 and only once has a reel gotten out of order, then it 

 r as bent in transportation, the "baggage-smasher's" 



