32 PRACTICAL FLY FISHING 



of these rods in the tail of his frock coat when going 

 about his parish and many a lusty fish he " snaked " 

 out of wayside streams. The combination rod, con- 

 sisting of a number of joints to be used interchange- 

 ably to make either a bait or fly rod, is a handy 

 tool on canoe trips where weight and space are mat- 

 ters of great moment, and when one wishes to cast 

 both bait and fly, but it is generally the fly rod end 

 of the combination that is least satisfactory. 



