193 Book of the Black Bass. 



To this day the octogenarian angler in Kentucky calls 

 his reel a spool. Mr. Sage informed me that he had seen 

 the spool used on the Cape Fear Eiver, near Wilmington 

 X. C, in 1839 and 1840. 



George Snyder was bom in the same county as Daniel 

 Boone — Bucks, Pa. He went to Paris, Ky., then called 

 Hopewell, about 1803, and died there on February 10, 

 1841, aged sixty years. He was a skillful watchmaker 

 and silversmith; being a good practical angler, and see- 

 ing the necessity for a rapid multiplying reel for black- 

 bass fishing with the live minnow, he proceeded to invent 

 one. Snyder's first reel was made for his own use, about 

 1810. He afterward made reels for members of his club, 

 and others. 



Some twenty years ago the late David M. Snyder, of 

 Cynthiana, Ky. — the last surviving son of George Sny- 



FiG. 14. Fig. 15. 



G. Snyder's Own Reel. G. Snyder's Own Keel Gearing. 



der — showed me a reel made by his father, in which the 

 ends of the spool-shaft were beveled to points which fitted 

 into beveled recesses of pivots that screwed into the center 

 caps of the outer disk-plates of the reel. By this com- 

 pensating device any wear could be readily taken up, or the 



Fig. 14. — George Snyder's own reel, made of brass, in 1810. 

 Disk-plates, 1% inches diameter; length of spool, 1% inches. 

 Marked in script " G. Snyder " and stamped " G. S." The shaft 

 runs on garnet jewels. This reel is in the possession of his grand- 

 son, K. J. Snyder, of Louisville, Ky. 



Fig. 15. — George Snyder's own reel gearing. Brass lock spring, 

 silver alarm spring. 



