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inches. For long rods a tube of some sort is 

 very handy. It can be fitted with corks, or with 

 a screw cap on one end, and in a case of this 

 sort a rod is safe from hard knocks. 



Tip cases are sometimes made to order by 

 houses that supply mailing tubes. The meth- 

 od of winding the strips of strawboard spir- 

 ally makes these tubes tough and strong, and if 

 the walls are thick, the ends corked and the tube 

 supplied with a canvas case, the rod will be well 

 protected. I have seen these tubes as small as 

 one inch in diameter, for long tips. Sometimes 

 they are covered with leather. They are fre- 

 quently made thus for bait-casting rods which 

 have separate handgrasps, the grasps to be car- 

 ried in a pocket or tackle case. 



A very good plan is to groove a piece of 

 white pine so that the tips of the rod will lie 

 below the surface, the grooves being enlarged 

 to let the guides go underneath, then inclose 

 this form in a canvas case with the butt and 

 joint, the whole rod being fairly well protected. 

 Choose a piece an inch thick and about 2 inches 

 wide. 



Still another way is to employ a canvas case 

 of the form illustrated in Figs. 17 and 18. The 

 upper end is bound with braid or is hemmed, 

 the lower edge turned over and sewed length- 



