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mentioned further on, Mr. Farlow makes according to my model 

 and sells as my pattern, is figured in the engraving.* 



I quote the following from my remarks in the Badminton 

 Volume : 



" It is all very well to talk lightly of casting forty yards, and so 

 forth, with a twenty-foot Castle Connell, but the man who wishes 

 to do it and to go on doing it all day must be of stronger 

 mould or greater height than the ordinary run of mortals. In my 

 opinion a twenty-foot rod requires a seven-foot fisherman to 

 wield it with comfort, and I am quite satisfied that for all 

 ordinary purposes the salmon-fisher would get more comfort and 

 more ' sport ' too with a rod such as that I have described than 

 with a longer and more fatiguing and unwieldy weapon. . . 



It should be borne in mind as a mechanical axiom in this 

 matter of the length of rod, that exactly in proportion as you 

 gain in casting power by the increased leverage, so (the motive 

 force being equal) do you lose in the propelling power by which 

 only the leverage can be utilised the practical deduction from 

 which proposition is that every man has a length of rod exactly 

 proportioned to his physical strength a rod out of which, that is, 

 he can get the maximum of casting force compatible with sustained 

 muscular effort and that it should be his object to ascertain what 

 that length is." 



* The dimensions, &c., of the salmon rod are : 



Length when put together . . . . .13 ft. io| in. 



Weight with ferrules and rings, but without indiarubber 



knob on butt . . . . , I Ib. 9 oz. 



in. i6ths. 



Circumference of butt at reel . 3 2 



middle . 2 5 



,, ferrule . I 10 



of large joint at bottom I 9 



ferrule I 3 



of top joint at bottom I 2 



,, 2 in. from top ring o 8^ 



,, of extra stout top joint, 2 in. from top ring o 10 



The indiarubber knob weighs 3ozs. more, but it is of great practical com- 

 fort and convenience, and no salmon rod should be without one. 



