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you in the winter than if you wait until March 

 before ordering. 



If fly lines have been left on the reels, take 

 them off and roll them in coils five inches or 

 more in diameter. If left on the reel a water- 

 proof silk line will come off in small spirals 

 difficult to straighten, and it is a good idea to 

 rub it with a piece of flannel moistened with 

 crude petroleum, then rub this all off, coil loosely 

 and tie coil in three or four places with thread. 

 Hang it up in your tackle cabinet, and now and 

 then during the winter give it a gentle " shaking 

 up," to be sure that it has not gone sticky from 

 too much artificial heat. 



A cool closet is the best place for fine lines. 

 It is a good plan to keep a dressed line on one 

 of the large tournament reels, described in Fig. 

 30. I make it a practice to transfer my line 

 from my fishing reel to a tournament reel as 

 soon as I return from a fishing excursion, and by 

 so doing never have any trouble with the line. 



About all that can be done to preserve the 

 braided silk bait-casting line is to keep it dry. 

 The angler has a choice of three kinds: un- 

 dressed silk; waterproofed silk; and soft 

 dressed. Nearly all treated lines are more dif- 

 ficult to use on a bait reel than those that are 

 not treated, as such lines are more or less wiry, 



