CHAPTER XIX 



THE SPINNING REEL AND THE SCIENCE OF SPINNING 

 WITH A SALMON OR ANY DOUBLE-HANDED ROD 



The consideration of a spinning lure The spinning reel The drum, 

 its inertia and its rotation Determining the moment for free 

 rotation The control over the drum Checking the rotation of 

 the drum Diagrammatic consideration of spinning with any make 

 of the Nottingham reel The check on the drum The automatic 

 starting mechanism of the drum of spinning reels The right side 

 cast with the double-handed spinning rod The starting point 

 The action of the rod. 



THE CONSIDERATION OF SPINNING A LURE 

 The difficulty of learning to cast a spinning lure correctly 

 and accurately has been in the past greatly increased owing 

 to the fact that there never have been, so far as I am aware, 

 any definite instructions as to the exact nature of the 

 physical energy required in spinning, or as to how that 

 energy should be scientifically applied. 



The art of spinning consists in propelling a lure accurately 

 and delicately from the end of a spinning rod, and the mental 

 and muscular action which is necessary to make this a 

 correct habit is not easy to acquire. It is necessary that a 

 well-considered and practised manipulation of the reel and 

 the line to which the lure is attached should accompany 

 this action. 



As no two absolutely new actions can be thought out and 

 performed together one or other of these two separate 

 mental and physical processes must be learnt first. The 

 attempt to accomplish them simultaneously will result in 

 failure, and a continuance of this attempt, though it may 



