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egg-shaped float; at 90 a white disk; at 95 an- 

 other blue float; and at 100 another square 

 white float (T, Fig. 21). 



Fig. 21. Floats for Marking Line. 



This is about as far as the fly-caster can de- 

 termine the form of floats accurately, unless 

 they are somewhat widely separated. All that 

 is now necessary is to provide for accurate scor- 

 ing by the judges. White six-inch disks, there- 

 fore, will serve for the no, 120,130, 140, 160, 

 170, 1 80, and 190 foot marks, with large fig- 

 ures on each. At 125, 150, 175 and 200 feet 

 use square floats, for the bait-casters can see 

 these clearly. Paint the 125 and 175 foot 

 marks red, the 150 and 200 foot marks white. 

 Blue floats mark the odd distances throughout 

 the line, except at 75, 125, and 175 feet, as 

 noted above. No weights of any sort will be 

 needed, and if the corners and edges of all 

 marks be smoothed off, there will be no place 

 on the entire line that a casting line will foul. 



These markers should all be saturated with 



