REELS, LINES AND LEADERS 63 



fishing and, when using the customary 25 yards of 

 level E or F line, it allows a good-sized core of other 

 line to be wound on the spool for the purpose explained 

 above. But for very short, light fly-rods a smaller reel 

 must be used to obtain proper balance, and since, in 

 this case, a smaller line will be used, the 6oyard reel 

 will answer. 



The position of the single-action click reel on the 

 trout fly-rod, as every old hand knows, is underneath 

 the rod with the handle to the right, if 

 you are right handed. If you aspire to Position 

 an honorable status in the most ancient 



and honorable fraternity of fly-casters, 

 and for numerous other weighty reasons, take due no- 

 tice. The proper way to use the reel in fly-casting is, 

 as suggested above, to use it as little as possible. The 

 "shooting" of the line through the rod guides at 

 the end of the forward cast, whereby tournament fly- 

 casters make such remarkable distance casts and the 

 stream fly-fisherman may drop his flies in a desirable 

 spot quite beyond reach of the one-handed caster, is 

 founded entirely on the caster's ability to use in this 

 way the hand not occupied by the rod. All of which 

 is preparatory to the statement that only with the reel 

 underneath the rod is this method at all practicable. 



As to how much you will have to 

 pay for a good single-action reel, it may Some Good 

 be said that their prices vary from, say, 

 $3.50 to $10.00; you can pay more if you like and, 



