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fixed to the metal support of the foot plate. This reel-guard 
will be noticed in the cut illustrating Messrs. Farlow’s Lever 
Reel (p. 59), marked c. 
Messrs. Bernard, of Church Place, Piccadilly, have also 
recently made a ‘protector’ on the same principle, but 
differently applied : as it is attached—always, of course, by the 
middle bar—with a separate spring, forming an equally effec- 
tual prevention of ‘line-hitching.’ Indeed, in one respect, it is 
even more absolutely ‘ undefeatable’ than my original device, 
as it occupies the whole width of the reel-barrel. Per contra 
it adds appreciably to the weight, which the original pattern 
does not. The annexed cut shows Bernard’s modification as 
applied to one of their excellently proportioned silver-bronzed 
trout-reels. 
To show how really serious an annoyance this hitching of 
the line round the reel is recognised to be, Messrs. Foster, of 
Ashbourne, have actually gone to the trouble of constructing a 
reel in an enlargement of the rod-butt itself, a plan which, 
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whatever may be its merits in other respects, it is needless to 
say effectually overcomes the difficulty.! 
Some beautiful reels are now made in America, for a 
specimen of the most perfect of which I am indebted to the 
courtesy of the inventor, Mr. Chas. F. Orvis, of Manchester, 
Vermont, U.S.A. This reel, with its extraordinarily narrow 
barrel, and side plates perforated throughout for lightness, 
1 A good temporary expedient is suggested by ‘Hi Regan,’ in How and 
Where to Fish in Ireland (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington), 
the most recent and reliable compendium of information for the tourist to the 
fishing grounds of the Sister Isle. The improvised ‘protector’ ‘is a piece of 
light and tough leather (eelskin is the best), sewn round the back-bar of the 
reel, and bound behind, or taken in under and held by the fixed ring which 
secures the reel plate.’ 
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