With What to Get Them 



made so they can be cleaned and oiled and put 

 together again by loosening a screw. Since 

 the advent of big-game fishing a new device 

 to aid the angler is called the "drag," which 

 creates friction enough to prevent the fish from 

 taking the line too fast, in place of the thumb 

 or the "thumb drag" made of leather. Salt- 

 water fishermen, in deep water or from piers, 

 and at a distance from the water, use a large 

 wooden reel, five to seven inches in diameter; 

 for surf-fishing, a nickel-plated double multiply- 

 ing reel, holding from 100 to 400 yards of line, 

 made with extra-heavy gears and click. 



For tarpon and tuna fishing, large powerful 

 reels are made specially designed to meet the 

 terrific strain of a tuna rush, having a capacity 



of 300 yards of No. 24 Cuttyhunk 

 Marine Reels .. L+ . , J . 



line. They are mighty engines 



and, when attached to the rod in use, seem power- 

 ful enough to land any living moving creature of 

 any size in the water. 



Since bait-casting has become one of the fine 

 arts of angling, it is, of course, essential that a reel 

 must not only be very rapid, but run with the 

 greatest freedom and ease, so as to deliver the 

 bait as far as possible at a single cast, the thumb, 

 meanwhile, controlling the rapid rendering of the 

 line, and preventing back lashing of the spool. 

 The main object of the multiplying reel, is for 

 facility in casting, not in retrieving the line. 



On the other hand, the click reel is much better 

 for the purpose of casting the fly. The line is 

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