n8 FISHING KITS AND EQUIPMENT 



an umbrella handle or a broomstick, fit either of them 

 with a good reel, go fishing and catch bass. This in- 

 volves a confession but I feel impelled to say that once, 

 when bait-casting for bass, I smashed the rod short off 

 at the upper end of the middle joint. Whereupon I 

 discarded the tip and continued to cast with the re- 

 mains with no great difficulty but, naturally, with 

 little grace, and took four good bass after the smash- 

 up. Practically in bait-casting the reel does all the 

 work, and the amount of work it has to do is immense. 

 An average day's fishing will usually amount to 

 about six hours of continual casting, during which the 

 reel is constantly at work, paying out the line at high 

 speed and again recovering it. It goes without saying 

 that a poor mechanism, a reel of cheap material and 

 carelessly adjusted, will be racked apart very shortly. 

 You cannot over-estimate the importance of the reel, 

 or the importance of a good reel if you want to get the 

 most out of your sport. 



The quadruple casting reel has four revolutions of 

 the spindle to one turn of the handle. The reel han- 

 dle is not, as in the case of the single- 

 How the act { on ree^ fi xe j to t h e spindle directly, 

 Reel is . . , , i . , 



Made connects with a ratchet which in 



turn works in a cog-wheel at the spindle 

 end. The ratchet with which the reel handle con- 

 nects may have 32 cogs to 8 in the spindle ratchet, 

 thus giving four turns, of the spindle to one of the 

 handle. This mechanism is enclosed within the plates 



