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every cast your stiff rod has to be worked with 

 twice the movement of arm that mine requires :" 

 to which the reply would be, " Yes, but then my 

 rod is so lightened towards the point, that it is no 

 effort to me to work it." For my own part I 

 think that, like the chameleon philosophers, both 

 are wrong and both are right ; in other words, that 

 each rod possesses a valuable principle of its own, 

 but carried to a mischievous excess in the two 

 extreme types I have referred to. In the Salmon- 

 rod power is pre-eminently necessary, and green- 

 hart gives it. Lightness is another essential ele- 

 ment, and the old-fashioned evenly-tapered hickory 

 rod admirably fulfils the condition. 



Very strong and tall anglers may wield, and 

 very broad waters sometimes demand, a longer 

 rod than 1 8 feet, but for all ordinary purposes I 

 think from 1 8 to 1 9 feet will be found the most 

 convenient length. In order to insure the greatest 

 comfort and efficiency, the rings, &c., of Salmon 

 rods, as of all others, should be stiff instead of 

 moveable as ordinarily arranged. 



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