52 FISHING KITS AND EQUIPMENT 



Work toward the butt when assembling the rod. 

 First assemble the tip and middle-joint; the butt-joint 

 comes last. Take the rod down just reverse, starting 

 with the butt-joint. Do not, as you value the long 

 life of your rod, twist the ferrules either in assembling 

 or taking down the rod. When assembling the rod 

 in a boat or canoe reeve the line through the guides 

 before putting the joints together. 



When going through brush with the rod rigged for 

 fishing carry the rod in front do not drag it be- 

 hind you and go slowly. If there is any considera- 

 ble amount of brush-going to traverse take the rod 

 down. You will save time and other things. 



Learn to splice a rod at the stream-side and then 

 see to it that you never have to use the knowledge. 



In taking leave of the subject of the trout fly-rod the 



writer wishes once more to say: Get a good rod. 



You will find that the use of good 



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world. You will acquire a different an- 

 gling view-point, one not wholly concerned with the 

 weight or number of the fish you catch. And there's 

 something about a first-class rod that makes you want 

 to learn how to handle it in a first-class way and 

 that is a pretty interesting game, and one not too easily 

 mastered. Of no class of goods is it more true that 

 the best is, in the end, the cheapest, than of fishing 

 tackle; and, absolutely apart from its actual use, there 

 is a very certain satisfaction in the mere ownership of 



