SELECTION, CARE, AND RIGGING 



joint with handgrasp and seat the reel so that 

 it will come underneath the rod, with handle 

 to the right, when the line-guides are also down, 

 and so that the line will render from the lower 

 side of the reel-spool straight to the first or 

 bottom guide. Draw from the reel about fifteen 

 feet of line, and lay down the butt-joint. Next 

 'joint the top- to the middle-joint; thread the 

 line through the remaining guides; and then 

 and not till then joint the combined smaller 

 joints to the butt. When taking down the rod 

 you generally may reverse the 'process, yet dis- 

 cretion sometimes prompts one first to disjoint 

 the top when cramped for free space about the 

 rod-tip. Attach leader and flies. 



For fastening the line to the loop at the end 

 of the leader we prefer the simple jam-knot re- 

 inforced by a knot in the end of the line, as 

 shown in Fig. 1. 

 It is a secure fix 

 and yet the leader ~ 

 is readily de- 

 tached. Fig. rig. i 

 shows another 

 method, which 

 makes it safe with- 

 out the knot in 

 the end of the 



reel-line and also has the advantage that the 



projecting end points toward the fly. Fig. 3 



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