The Outfit— Rods. 



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It may be demonstrated that as the line lengthens, and 

 that as the rod departs from a right angle with the line 

 — either, or both — a given movement of the rod will pro- 

 duce a diminishing effect upon the line. If the rod and 

 line were two bodies inflexible except at the hinge-joint 

 that united them, this would be all we should have to con- 

 sider. We would then draw a circle, using the grasp of 

 the rod as a centre, and its length above the grasp as the 

 radius. This circle would then correctly represent the 

 path described by the tip of the rod in the act of striking 

 a fish, or in retrieving the line for the "back-cast." We 

 now produce a horizontal line to represent the water. 

 The distance from a point on this circle to the water will 

 represent a given length of fishing-line. If we now set 

 a pair of compasses to this distance, and, applying one 

 extremity to any other point of the circle, see where the 

 other leg reaches the water-line, we can determine how 

 much the movement of the rod through the given inter- 

 val has withdrawn the line. It will be found to dimin- 

 ish as the length of line is increased. 



The following diagram demonstrates this: 



Fig. 1. 



A S represents a portion of a circle described by the 

 tip of a rod in casting; CD, the water-line; E F and 



