With What to Get Them 



and springy that they are only capable of doing 

 well at short ranges, and are useless for anything 

 like a long cast. A properly constructed salmon 

 rod should have the strength equally distributed 

 from butt to tip, so that a pull at the latter point 

 will cause the rod to bend throughout its entire 

 length. If the spring is confined to one-half the 

 length, owing to weakness of the tip or stiffness 

 of the butt, the rod is defective; for in casting, the 

 spring should be easily perceptible to the end of 

 the butt; such a rod can be used for lake trolling 

 or spinning for salmon if a shorter tip is used. 



The modern, up-to-date marine rod can be 

 procured in every style, weight, or size. It can be 

 made of one long tip with short butt, when jointed, 

 measuring five and one-half feet and weighing 

 but five ounces, up to the powerful tuna rod of 

 seven feet and weight of twenty-five ounces. The 

 angler can choose excellent rods of steel, split 

 bamboo, greenheart, lance-wood, noib-wood or 

 bethabera, all being priced according to the fin- 

 ish and trimmings. Anglers' opinions are so 

 varied as to what is really the best, that it is quite 

 possible there is little difference in the matter, 

 when the best of each is considered. Of the solid 



woods, a rod made of noib-wood has a 

 Woods" l ar ge number of admirers because of 



its great toughness and elasticity. It 

 is grown in the tropics and imported by a tackle 

 dealer specially for the purpose of rod-making. 

 It is admirable for salt-water fishing because it is 

 harder than either greenheart or lance wood, and 

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