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ficient number to prove that there is a reel for the 

 lover of the unusual, and wide awake inventors are 

 racking if not wrecking their brains to produce some- 

 thing different. Any day, perhaps, some angling, 

 tool-wise Walton will invent a casting reel that will 

 revolutionize the sport, who knows? However, I 

 am free to admit that I am a conservative of the con- 

 servatives. I do not ask my reel to do all the work. 

 I desire to do the major part of it myself. I prefer 

 the simple un-everything reel. Just the same, there 

 is no greater treat in store for the lover of bass 

 tackle than to stand before a well filled reel cabinet, 

 displaying the various orthodox and heterodox 

 winches that have been produced; undoubtedly many 

 of them spell tragedy for some inventor. 



ATTACHMENTS 



Various attachments have been produced, of more 

 or less merit, two or three of which should be men- 

 tioned in this connection because of not a little value 

 to the bait caster. The angler who has trouble with 

 hand-cramp will find the finger-hook and hand-grasp 

 attachment a veritable boon, for it will obviate his 

 trouble to a great extent; furthermore, it clamps the 

 reel firmly upon the rod; and is a splendid finger- 

 hook; but it is as a hand-grasp that it will appeal 

 most strongly. Made of German silver, satin 

 finished, it does not detract from the appearance of 

 the rod. 



