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on a fishing reel, but use something larger. 

 In tournament casting a great many anglers 

 use a " reel " (Fig. 30) turned from a piece of 



Fig. 30. Reel for Tournament Fly Lines. 

 Any wood worker can turn this from a piece of poplar 

 or white pine. Its diameter is 9 inches; thickness, I inch; 

 width of rim, 1*4 inches; depth of groove, ^ inch; width 

 of groove, Y^ inch. It will hold any fly line. Protect it 

 from warping and checking with two coats of shellac. A 

 loop of cord is attached to end of line, then looped over 

 the loop, pulled taut, then the casting line rolled on. 



I- or 1%-inch white pine or poplar. This is 

 simply a disk seven or eight inches in diameter 

 with a groove cut in its edge and the center 

 cut out, leaving a sort of grooved hoop. It 

 will hold a large quantity of the heaviest line. 

 With it the line is reeled in very rapidly. Its 

 principal advantage is that its diameter being 

 large, the line is not cramped, but comes off 



