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the handle may be specified on the higher grade reels. 

 Usually the handle is placed "forward of the bottom." 

 That is directly under or ahead of the oil caps, near 

 the bottom of the reel. This, it seems, is the logical 

 place for the handle. 



GRADES AND PRICES 



Just what grade of reel to buy is the problem we 

 will now attempt to "wrestle" with. Very often the 

 beginner is "scared stiff" by the reckless statements 

 made by some writers on angling topics to the effect 

 that the reel worth casting with is an impossibility 

 under $8 or $10. Quadruple multiplying reels 

 range in price from 75 cents to $60. What grade to 

 buy should depend on the angler's pocket-book and the 

 amount of use the reel will get, the latter being more 

 important. 



For the once-in-a-while fisherman, a high grade reel 

 would be an extravagance something from $2.50 to 

 $5.00 will be plenty good enough until he gets thor- 

 oughly inoculated with the fever. As is to be expected, 

 such a reel will be of fairly soft material, not designed 

 for long years of very hard service, but it will be a 

 casting reel in every sense of the word. We have a 

 reel which cost $4.50, that has seen seven years of 

 hard service, and apparently it is good for several more 

 years, and, incidentally, one of the best known practical 

 casters in this country prefers a reel of a well-known 

 make that sells for $5.00. Reels of this class make 



