62 FISHING KITS AND EQUIPMENT 



ing trip be sure that a reserve reel is in the kit. 11 

 your reel is broken or lost, either of which things can 

 easily happen in the woods, the extra one will come in 

 rather handy. 



Do not make the mistake of getting a reel that is 



too small. It is advisable to get as much retrieving 



speed as possible out of the reel, and this 



I? 6 1 can k est " )e ^ one by, first, having the 

 reel spool narrow, and, second, having 

 the reel of sufficient size so that you can wind on a core 

 of linen or other cheap line which builds up on the reel 

 to such an extent that, when the casting line (spliced 

 to the linen line) is reached, the barrel of the reel will 

 be large enough to take up considerable line at each 

 revolution. Either the loo-yard size or the So-yard 

 size will be right nothing smaller. The loo-yard 

 reel holds about 40 yards of size E enameled line ; the 

 8o-yard reel about 35 yards. You see that when the 

 expression " 8o-yard reel " is applied to the single- 

 action it does not mean exactly that. Ordinarily you 

 will probably not use over 25 yards of level line, either 

 E or F. But if, sometime, you desired to use say 

 40 yards of line, and in the case of most anglers such 

 a contingency is not at all remote, if your reel hap- 

 pened to be one of the smaller sizes you would be put 

 to the expense of a new reel. With a loo-yard reel 

 you would merely remove some of the core line. On 

 the whole the looyard size is the best. This reel will 

 hold all the line you are ever likely to need in trout 



