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first drop above the cinnamon is an ibis, and the first drop 
above the ibis is a cinnamon, and the first drop above the 
mallard wing is a cinnamon. The hand-flies are the blue dun 
or the cow-dung. The blue professor is also an excellent fly 
early in the season, as is also the gray; the yellow is better 
in May. 
My advice to the angler is to purchase his flies of the best 
fly-tyers in New York and Boston, where competition has pro- 
duced the necessity for employing first-rate materials in all 
the departments of fishing-tackle, whether of gut, flies, hooks, 
lines, reels, rods, and the coarser paraphernalia of the angler. 
Trour Rerrs.—The click reel is incomparably the best, 
though it is not so good to dry a line on as is the Billinghast 
reel, which is formed of brass or German silver wire, and the 
line open on all sides to the air. The click reel checks the 
line to a certain weight of resistance, to which the angler 
soon becomes accustomed, and in giving the fish the butt, he 
does it with confidence, because he has ascertained from ex- 
perience how great a check he puts upon the fish, and the pre- 
cise strain caused to his casting-line, which he has regulated 
accordingly. This is not the case with a reel whose tension 
of drag may be changed several times during one day’s sport. 
But the best reel for my use is a click reel, with a large per- 
forated barrel or cylinder to reel the line on, and it should 
also be perforated at the cnds over the cylinder, for drying 
the line. The advantage of a large cylinder to reel the line 
on when the reel does not multiply is important, because it 
shortens the time of reeling. Besides, with a large cylinder, 
thirty yards is a sufficient length of line. I once killed a five- 
and-a-halfpound trout in a very rapid stream with a nine- 
ounce rod and only thirty yards of line. It took me two 
hours and twelve minutes to kill the fish, timed by Dr. Be- 
thune, of Boston. 
A click multiplier is better for angling with the worm or 
minnow, but many bait anglers of the country prefer a small 
multiplier without a click or drag. Bell-metal is supposed 
