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Fig. 12. 



A device to accomplish the same end is made by A. W. 

 Bishop & Son, Eaeine, Milwaukee, which they term an 

 " independent automatic spool- 

 ing device," which can be 

 easily applied to an ordinary 

 reel that has three-sixteenths of 

 an inch between the hub band 

 and the oil cap on the front 

 plate. The device is made in 

 three sizes to fit reels of corre- 

 sponding lengths between the 

 reel plates. It is operated by 

 two pulleys connected by a rubber band, one pulley being 

 attached to the handle of the reel by an ingenious clip. It 

 works well if it fits the reel, and the same remarks concern- 

 ing casting, with the reel previously mentioned, will apply 

 in a measure to a reel fitted with this device. 



Still another device to aid the angler, who 

 needs such assistance, is the drag handle, 

 which creates friction enough to prevent the 

 fish from taking line too fast; it substitutes 

 the thumb of the angler when placed on the 

 spool to accomplish the same purpose. A. B. 

 I Meisselbach & Brother make " The Gov- 

 'ernor," a friction device placed inside a 

 balance handle, which may be fitted to any 

 reel, by replacing the original handle. It 

 can be adjusted to any amount of friction de- 

 sired by the turning of the small screws on 

 its disk. When playing a fish the angler 

 holds the handle between his fingers, and 

 when the fish ceases to pull he can reel it in 

 in the usual way. 



