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can recommend their use for strength, pliability and all 

 the necessary features that are essential in a minnow-cast- 

 ing line. 



Eeel-Lines foe Fly-Fishing. 

 The reel-line for fly-fishing must necessarily be heavier 

 than the line used in bait-fishing, the greater weight of 

 the former being required to cast objects so light and deli- 

 cate as artificial flies; while in the case of the small and 

 light bait-line, the minnow, swivel and sinker give the 



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required weight for casting. Increased weight is obtained 

 by increase of the caliber of the line, so a fly-line is conse- 

 quently of a larger size than a bait-line. 



In days long gone the twisted or plaited hair, and hair 

 and silk, lines were emploj^ed altogether by the best anglers 

 for fly-lines, but they have been entirely superseded by the 

 really elegant tapered and enameled waterproof braided 

 silk line. The latter is the line par excellence for all kinds 

 of fly-fishing, being smooth, round, polished and perfectly 

 waterproof, and is just stiff and heavy enough to favor a 

 perfectly straight cast, without looping or kinking, quali- 

 ties that are peculiarly essential to this mode of angling. 



