370 FLY FISHING AND SPINNING 



those which, like the Illingworth, are solely designed for 

 casting the very lightest of lures. 



It is a simple matter to apply a mechanism to a spinning 

 reel so that, simultaneously with the release of the drum, its 

 rotatory action could be accelerated, but a simple and 

 effective means of regulating this impetus to the various 

 weights of the lures used when spinning has not so far been 

 established on a reliable basis. 



Automatically starting the reel will also mean that the 

 lure would have to be liberated on a different tangential 

 line to that adopted in the ordinary method of spinning 

 from the Nottingham reel, and a fisherman who had been 

 accustomed to use the ordinary Nottingham reel would when 

 using this accessory have to vary his habit of casting. He 

 would, if everything went well, reap this advantage the 

 lure would proceed with less trajectory, i.e., in a more direct 

 manner to its destination the curvature made by the lure 

 and the line being reduced and as less frictional resistance 

 would then be offered to the progress of the lure, a greater 

 distance could be attained. 



It seems to me that in fishing from a pier or from the shore 

 line, when a distant cast is desirable, such a mechanism is 

 hardly necessary, as distances approaching 117 yards 

 have been achieved when using the original Nottingham 

 sea fishing reels. 



The less the tangential direction is altered by having 

 to overcome the inertia of the reel, the more directly can 

 the lure be thrown towards its destination. 



This will be seen from the Diagram 24. For the sake 

 of argument we must suppose that the lure which is attached 

 to the rod and line when an Illingworth reel is used, does not 

 suffer from retardation, and consider at what point the 

 lure should be released during the swing of the rod in order 

 to arrive at the place D. 



