CH.1.] SPINNING-ROD—FOR TROUT—FOR JACK. 5 
tinuous day’s spinning, when you are out of prac- 
tice, is back-aching work even with a light rod, 
much more so with a heavy one. 
A trout-spinning-rod can generally be con- 
verted into one applicable to Jack, by substituting 
a short stiff top for the longer one, or (if extra- 
heavy baits be used) for the two upper joints 
required for lighter and finer work. Where how- 
ever very heavy baits are exclusively employed— 
the fashion in some places, though I by no means 
recommend it for general adoption—it will be found 
a matter of economy to have a stouter rod built 
for the purpose, as the undue strain to which a 
light rod would be thus subjected would soon ruin 
it, however good it might be. 
A rod if well made, and of good materials, will 
with care last a long while. I myself have a cane 
one which was made for me about seventeen years 
ago by Bowness (late Chevalier) of Bell Yard, 
(whose materials and workmanship I have always 
found extremely good,) which has been in pretty 
constant use ever since, and—barring a joint which 
was accidentally broken, and has been renewed— 
seems scarcely to have suffered from the work it 
has done, 
Over the button at the bottom of the rod 
