66 SALMON AND TROUT. 
in every respect models of finish and workmanship, and a vast 
stride in advance over the clumsily heavy ‘London-made 
reel.’ 
In all the foregoing reels the handles are so attached as, in 
one way or another, to prevent the line getting caught round 
them. 
There is still, however, something left to be desired in this 
matter of reel and line hitching. The snake is ‘scotched,’ not 
killed. In whatever manner the handle may be attached, che 
line still ts left free to hitch round behind the back of the reel 
itself—a freedom of which, it is almost needless to say, it 
seems to have a provoking determination to avail itself to the 
utmost. It appeared, therefore, that a stop might be put, once 
for all, on this never-ending worry, by partly covering over the 
space at the back of the reel with a ‘protector’ or guard of 
REEL WITH LINE PROTECTOR. 
some sort. The mechanical realisation of the idea was easy ; 
the protector springs from the middle bar of the posterior 
curve, over which (bar) it ‘clasps,’-—the exterior end pressing 
close on to and against the rod, whilst the ‘interior’ end is 
