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This is a valu- 



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be almost equal to a multiplier, 

 able feature, especially in dry- 

 fly work on weedy rivers, 

 where a hooked fish is likely 

 to bolt towards you, as by reel- 

 ing in quickly you can often 

 defeat him." 



" In selecting a reel for dry- 

 fly work, any of those men- 

 tioned may be procured either- 

 plain or with agate line-guards 

 and regulating checks." 



Messrs. Hardy advocate the use of agate guards on 



their new reel, and they are 



Revolving bar on reels, quite efficient. Some anglers, 



however, prefer a revolving 

 sleeve of steel or other hard metal on the ordinary 

 bar of a reel. It is entirely a matter of personal 

 preference which of these guards should be adopted. 

 I am to some extent of opinion that the revolving bar 

 is quite as handy as the agate guards suggested by the 

 makers of the new reel. 



I hope that I shall be absolved from undue conceit 



in suggesting that all the 



modern lines dressed in boiled 



linseed oil under an air-pump 



of the experiments conducted 



at my suggestion, by the late 



Mr. Deller and the late Mr. T. P. Hawksley. 



The Hawksley lines are as good as any of the 



Reel lines. 



are 



the outcome 

 many years since. 



