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delivery of the bait in a manner and at a distance com- 

 mensurate with the mode of fishing; and the second is to 

 play and land the fish after he is hooked, or to reel the 

 line for another cast. The reel which practically fulfills 

 these conditions with the greatest ease and facility, in the 

 method of fishing practiced, is the best reel to use. 



The two modes of angling in which the reel is em- 

 ployed are bait-fishing and fly-fishing, and as the two 

 methods differ so essentially, they require reels of widely 

 different functions. Thus in bait-fishing the multiplying 

 reel is used, while in fly-fishing the click reel is indis- 

 pensable. 



The multiplying reel must not only be very rapid in its 

 action, but the spool must revolve with the greatest ease 

 and freedom, so as to deliver the bait as far as possible at 

 a single cast, the thumb, meanwhile, controlling the rapid 

 rendering of the line, so as to prevent back-lashing of the 

 spool; but in fiy-fishing the line is lengthened gradually, 

 a few feet being taken from the reel by the hand before 

 each subsequent cast, while the click offers the necessary 

 resistance to the rendering of the line to permit this to 

 be done without overrunning. 



As the multiplying reel is made wide, so as to allow for 

 the thumbing of the spool, and as this necessity is not 

 required in the click reel, the latter is made quite narrow, 

 thus permitting the line to be reeled without bunching, 

 and, at the same time, allow of its being reeled rapidly 

 enough for all practical purposes, without a multiplying 

 action; for the main object of a multiplying reel, is for 

 facility in casting, and not in retrieving the line, as is 

 often erroneously supposed. 



After a fish is hooked, a click reel answers the purpose 

 of playing, and landing it, as well as the best triple or 

 quadruple multiplier made — if not better ; for often a fish 



