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Octagonal Cane Rod Nonagonal Cane Rod. 



Both Steel Center and Double Built. 

 Fig. 6. 



His preference then was for a rod 9^/2 to n 

 feet long, so it must be assumed that he re- 

 ferred to American rods of light weight. This 

 seems to be true, for he quotes Francis Francis, 

 who, in his " Book on Angling," told of making 

 a cast of twenty-six yards with a io^-foot 

 rod. No American five-ounce rod of the pres- 

 ent time would be accepted as a gift if it failed 

 to lay out seventy-eight feet, and the average 

 six-ounce rod, in the hands of an angler of or- 

 dinary skill, will send the fly yards further, if 

 the need arises. 



Mr. Halford says there are only three ma- 

 terials worth considering: split cane, green- 

 heart, and whole cane, in the order given. 

 Aside from its fault of occasionally snapping 

 off short, he likes greenheart, but gives double 

 enamel split cane the preference. 



