120 FISHING KITS AND EQUIPMENT 



in nickel. Aluminum is also used, particularly for 

 the spool. 



As noted below, the line for bait-casting is of very 



small caliber and it follows that a large reel is not 



needed. Casting lines are sold in fifty- 



^cnf an( * yar( * l en S tns > an( l to hold this amount 

 of line a sixty-yard reel is quite large 

 enough. The multiplying reel holds practically the 

 amount of line called for by the trade size, this not 

 being the case, as above noted, with the single-action 

 reel. The next size reel, 80 yards, requires, when 50 

 yards of line are used, a core of line, cork or wood to 

 fill up the reel spool before the casting line proper 

 is wound on. Some casters build around the reel spin- 

 dle a core of cork or wood; but this is a troublesome 

 affair in case the angler wishes at any time to use 

 more line than allowed for when fitting the core. 

 It is better simply to wind on a core of cheap line al- 

 though this is apt to work loose and cause soft and un- 

 even spooling of the line. On a light split-bamboo 

 casting rod use a small reel. For solid wood or steel 

 rods any of the So-yard reels will do. 



In shape the reel should be long in the barrel, that 

 is, between the end plates, and the end plates should 

 be of small diameter, thus differing from the ordinary 

 double-multiplying reel in which the spindle is usually 

 short. The long barrel facilitates thumbing the reel. 

 Reels having even-spooling or self-thumbing devices 

 are on the market, the idea being, it seems, to make 



