SELECTION, CARE, AND RIGGING 



of sheet-iron, % f an inch wide, is advisable. 

 This should come on the outside of the spool 

 when the whole affair is bent into a circle and 

 the ends riveted together with small copper 

 tacks or brass escutcheon-pins, through holes 

 punched by the point of a wire nail. The rein- 

 forcing strip also is held in place by a few rivets. 

 Note that it is fastened to the side opposite to 

 that on which the edges of the wide strip are folded 

 over. 



After you have bent the whole into circular 

 form and fastened it together at the ends, it 

 remains but to bend the edges over to make the 

 groove and the flanges of your spool. This is 

 easily done by shaping with a hammer, over a 

 wooden mold cut to the proper arc and held 

 upright in a vise or nailed on edge to a base- 

 board, and which will look like Fig. . 



The illustration 

 from the photograph 

 (Fig. 3) shows such a 

 storage reel hanging 

 over the notched hor- Fig . 2 . Wooden mold for shaping 



izontal arm Of a storage-reel flanges 



wooden gallows ; and when the line is transferred 

 onto the fishing reel directly from the spool so 

 hung, there will be just enough resistance to 

 the storage reel's turning on the arm to ensure 

 convenient and smooth winding of the line on 

 the fishing reel. Nine lines are carried on the 

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