Fig. 6 



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will be preferred by some fishermen — others will no 

 doubt continue to use the old style of wooden handle 

 or the cork handle, or the so- 

 called inlaid handle, in which 

 the six sections of the cane 

 of the joint are inlaid into a 

 solid cedar handle. A few 

 anglers like the cane worked 

 round the handle as is prac- 

 tised by some of the American 

 rod-makers, and others have 

 their handles whipped with 

 water cord, dressed silk line, 

 etc. 



When the rod is completed 



the critical 

 Action of a rod. question of 



its action is 

 one to be carefully considered. 

 The late Mr. T. P. Hawksley 

 worked for years with me at 

 a practical method of testing 

 or comparing the action of 

 rods, and devised the follow- 

 ing tests which "are given in 

 pages 30, 31, and 32 of the 

 fourth edition of " Dry- Fly 

 Fishing in Theory and Prac- 

 tice. 



"The points on which rods of the same material 



