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fishing with a double-handed rod. Indeed, even for light 
salmon fishing, I have both used it myself and seen it used 
successfully by others. No doubt the speciality of the reel is 
for pike spinning, in which connection it is figured and de- 
scribed in Vol. II., but for the convenience of trout and 
salmon fishers the illustration is here repeated. 
‘PERFECT COMBINATION REEL.’ 
In order fully to adapt the Combination Reel to the require- 
ments of the ordinary fly- and float-fisher, as well as to the troller, 
the winder and axle, instead of being entirely of wood, as formerly 
—necessitating, of course, a large diameter—are now also made, in 
the form shown in the woodcuts, of wood and metal combined, by 
which the diameter of the axle is reduced, and the reel so far in all 
respects assimilated to the ordinary patterns of brass and bronze,— 
its speciality in regard to the Nottingham style of casting being of 
