54 PRACTICAL FLY FISHING 



level or thirty yards of tapered E line or 3% to 

 inches for equal lengths of size D. A large reel is ad- 

 visable as it enables one to splice his fly line to fifty 

 yards or so of linen line for extra heavy fishing. 



Good English reels retail in America at from six 

 dollars to forty dollars. 



AMERICAN REELS 



The average American click reel is smaller in di- 

 ameter and has a wider spool than the contracted type 

 although large, narrow reels have been made in this 

 country for many years. The old type of American 

 reel is heavier, as a rule, than those of British make, 

 which is desirable to balance 

 the light-in-the-butt American 

 fly rods. They are usually 

 made of metal and hard rub- 

 ber; sometimes entirely of 

 metal. 



Click reels made in this 

 country have a rated capacity 

 based on undressed line which 



. 

 Raised Pillar Type. enced. What is known to the 



trade as the 80 yard size will hold 25 or 30 yards of E 

 line and the 100 and 150 yard sizes are about right for 

 40 yards of E or 30 yards of D line. Reels with 

 raised pillars hold more line than those of equal size and 

 of ordinary construction. 



American click reels of nickel and rubber, of a 



