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ultimately result in success, will be a long and tedious 

 process, in which one of the objects to be achieved will have 

 to suffer until the other has been acquired, and even if 

 success attends the simultaneous efforts, those efforts, 

 when made into a habit, will only be acquired as a knack. 



If the separate process of manipulating the reel be first 

 considered and practised until the correct method of using 

 it be made into a habit, which answers to desire then the 

 other original process, the manipulation of the rod, can be 

 considered, practised and also made into a correct habit. 



It will then be possible to consider and perform the two 

 actions of using the spinning rod and the spinning reel 

 together. 



It must be evident that the simpler the manipulation of 

 the reel, the more quickly can it be learnt, and the use of the 

 rod be thereafter acquired. No reel should take more than 

 two minutes to learn, more than five minutes to handle, 

 or more than half an hour to work habitually. The greater 

 difficulty is in learning the correct manner of using the rod. 



THE SPINNING REEL 



We will turn first to the reel. There are three different 

 duties required from the mechanism of the perfect reel : 



1. Its normal duty this consists in its working as an 



ordinary fishing reel. The rotation of the drum on 

 which the line is wound is held in check by a ratchet 

 wheel and a spring controlled pawl. Their united 

 duties are to so effect the control of the drum, that in 

 one direction of its rotation it presents its strongest 

 resistance to the fish, and in the other a considerably 

 less resistance to the hand when winding in the line. 



2. Its second duty is the permitting of the disengagement 



of the pawl from the ratchet wheel and the free 

 rotatory action of the drum. 



