16 THE WINCH OR REEL. 



and the addition of dragon's blood will give it a reddish 

 brown colour. Boiled linseed oil may also be used, or 

 a solution of caoutchouc (india rubber) in ether. But 

 they do not look so well as the varnish, although they 

 will equally well protect the wood against damp and 

 insects. 



THE WINCH OR KEEL. 



In regard to the reel, there are several kinds in use 

 according to the fancies of different sportsmen viz., the 

 common pillar-reel, the click-reel, the stop-reel, and the 

 multiplying winch all differing more or less in their 

 interior anatomy and physiology ; but none of them, as 

 at present made, are favourites of mine, excepting the 

 first. 



The pillar-reel. There can be no question that for 

 all ordinary purposes, either for trout or salmon fishing, 

 a modification of the simple pillar-reel is decidedly the 

 best. And if it is made narrow in width, broad in 

 diameter, thick in the axle, and with a friction-plate 

 interposed between the drum of the reel and the end 

 plate, it will be the safest and most efficient for general 

 use. 



The click-reel is that kind which emits a rattling 

 noise, either when the line is paid out or wound in. 

 This arises from the action of a steel point striking 

 against a toothed wheel attached to the drum of the 

 reel, which works between two brass plates at one end. 

 The steel point is fixed to the outside plate, and is acted 

 upon on either side by a circular steel spring, which 



