SELECTION, CARE, AND RIGGING 



ing it from the spool with the left hand. The 

 click on these reels is somewhat weak but the 

 firm repairs all of its reels very promptly and 

 free of charge. A later pattern from the same 

 people, called the "Rainbow," almost entirely 

 obviates the above criti- 

 cism; it is a very fair copy 

 of a superb English model 

 and a beautiful reel for its 

 price of five dollars. Frost 

 and Company, 90 Cham- 

 bers Street, New York, 

 make a very satisfactory 

 inexpensive reel, the 

 "Frostco," which has a 



Sliding friction-minimizing Approved narrow-barrel type 



guide attached. of sin g le - ac tion reel 



It cannot be denied that our British brethren 

 make exquisite single-action reels, but they are 

 very expensive and not at all essential to satis- 

 factory sport. They excel also in minute arti- 

 ficial flies and in lines for fly-fishing; but nothing 

 really beats the very best of American rods and 

 multiply ing-reels. (Mr. Perry D. Frazer, one- 

 time angling editor of Forest and Stream, man- 

 ufactures a tapered dry-fly line, marketed under 

 the name of "Pioneer," that experienced anglers 

 who have used the best of the imported article 

 think most highly of.) When you read about 

 "winches" in an English or Scotch tackle cat- 

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