134 Fly-rods and Fly-tackle. 



quently conducted in the following manner : One end 

 of a cord was fastened to the reel-line just beyond the 

 tip-ring, the other end leading to a spring-balance held 

 in my hand. Three or four feet of the reel-line were 

 drawn off and hung in a loop between my casting hand 

 and the reel. The moment a fish was fastened the rod 

 was pointed straight at the fish. Thus the initial strain 

 was almost instantly brought directly on the cord lead- 

 ing to the spring-balance. My notes on these experi- 

 ments have been lost or mislaid. 



Fortunately the table given above was published in 

 the Forest and Stream, which brought out some experi- 

 ments by a correspondent signing himself C. D. O., 

 tried in substantially the manner indicated above. As 

 my recollection is that my results did not differ mate- 

 rially, it seems better to give his figures than to trust to 

 memory for my own. He first mentions some lake 

 trout caught with a hand-line when fishing through the 

 ice in winter, the line being so arranged that the spring- 

 balance could be hooked to a loop on the line the mo- 

 ment a fish was fastened. This, of course, gave the di- 

 rect strain without any possible complications arising 

 from the intervention of a rod. Though lake trout are 

 not brook trout, still their shape is not so dissimilar as 

 to render his figures other than interesting, to say the 

 least. 



A lake trout of 1 Ib. 2 oz. pulled 2 Ib. 8 oz. 



" 2 " 4 " " 3 " 



1 " 2 " " 1 " 8 " 



j 14 " " 2 " 4 " 



u 2 " 1 " " 2 u 4 " 



2 " 5 " " 1 " 12 " 



