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that I invariably make use of it when teaching my clients 

 how to cast with a spinning rod, and the facility with 

 which they can in a few minutes learn to use this reel 

 with no danger of over-running is only equalled by 

 the pleasure they experience when actually fishing 

 with it. 



When casting correctly with the spinning-rod the danger of 

 the reel over-running only commences as the velocity of the 

 on-going lure begins to fall behind that rotatory speed of the 

 drum which has been acquired by the initial velocity of 

 the lure, and it is only necessary, therefore, if the rod 

 action has been properly made, to effect a braking control 

 over the drum during the latter half of any cast. One 

 of the many advantages possessed by this reel is that at 

 whatever time this checking action is required, during the 

 flight of the lure through the air, it can be at once effected 

 simply by increasing the pressure of the fingers on the lever 

 handle. Plate LX. 



A CONSIDERATION OF THIS REEL 



The drum spins well and can extend over seventy yards 

 of line when casting. It is so controlled that it can be 

 operated by the simple pressure of a finger of either hand, 

 no matter which hand is uppermost on the rod, or to which 

 side of the rod the handles of the reel are pointing. 



In other words, the reel cannot be placed on the rod 

 in a manner which prevents its being operated by the 

 fingers of either hand, a unique and very valuable inno- 

 vation. The levers are so easily operated and the rotation 

 of the drum is so easily regulated, that practically no danger 

 of over-running occurs, even when the reel is used for the 

 first time. 



The free rotation, the slight check which prevents over- 

 running, and the return to the normal fishing condition of the 



