160 Book op the Black Bass. 



given, we have a cane joint six feet and six inches long, 

 and a Tvooden butt say twenty inches long, with the grip 

 of one and one-eighth of an inch in diameter, and the reel 

 seat of one inch diameter. Now procure a set of reel 

 bands one inch inside diameter ; a pair of ferrules for the 

 joint —r the inside diameter of the smaller or male ferrule 

 being of the same diameter as the large end of the cane 

 piece, which can readily be ascertained with a pair of 

 calipers; five standing guides, graduated sizes, and a solid 

 metal tip. These mountings should be brass or German 

 silver. The guides should be attached at equal distances 

 from the reel seat to the tip; and, having properly fitted 

 the ferrules and reel bands, give the rod two coats of shel- 

 lac or coach varnish. When dry, the rod is ready for use, 

 and will be about eight feet in length, and weighing from 

 six to eight ounces — a single-handed rod equal to any 

 rod made for easting, will be well-balanced and strong, 

 but will lack the pliancy, resiliency and perfect working 

 of a good ash and lancewood rod, yet it will be such a 

 great improvement on the cane rod, as generally used, 

 that it has only to be tried to be appreciated. 



Non-doweled Joint. 



One of the specifications of the Henshall rod is that the 

 joints be made flush, with short, cylindrical ferrules, in- 

 stead of the old-fashioned tapered ferrule with dowel and 

 mortise ; and as so many of these rods have been sold dur- 

 ing the past twenty years, it has had a great tendency to 

 introduce and popularize this form of joint, which is now 

 also applied to most fly rods to their great advantage. 



It is now forty years since I made my first rod with 

 flush joints, having, at that time never heard of or seen a 



