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ever a suitable opportunity occurs. Therefore, to 

 the young and energetic fisherman the more tiring 

 but adaptable use of a long rod can be strongly 

 recommended. The shorter rod and mechanical 

 reel no doubt make their appeal on account of their 

 ease to older fishermen. 



This is the ease so far as I am concerned nowa- 

 days, and moreover I sometimes use a Malloch reel. 

 It is the easiest spinning reel to cast with I have 

 tried, and the disadvantage of kinking, which has 

 been so much discussed lately, is readily cancelled 

 by, now and again, taking off the cast, and allowing 

 twenty or thirty yards of the line to recoil back 

 again to their original straightness by flowing for a 

 few minutes down-stream. 



In throwing with a Malloch the automatic reach- 

 ing forward of the left hand, at the finish of the 

 cast, to grasp and turn the drum instantaneously 

 is the most important feature of the whole business. 

 At the same moment this left hand is in contact 

 with the rod, and spinning with the right hand 

 commences without any delay. A rod of this kind 

 for trout fishing should be fairly supple, and allow 

 of the use of fine gut traces and small hooks, so 

 that, in its first striking shock it will not tear away 

 the hold of the tackle from the jaws of the fish. 



It has to be remembered that fish taking a 



