. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 298 ffiJje $reefrar onfr ^mrfeefmatu [November 5,1896 found very inconvenient in controlling the line when casting at a distance, unless the rod be turned to bring the reel on top. lo casting flies with a fly-rod, it is all right to have the reel beneath the rod aod the line hanging loosely in the ringp, but it is an awkward place for the reel above your hand, especially id striking your fish and retrieving your line after a cast. And when the reel is above the band, in reeling in a fish the position is necessarily awkward and ungraceful, aod the rod, unlesi yo
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 298 ffiJje $reefrar onfr ^mrfeefmatu [November 5,1896 found very inconvenient in controlling the line when casting at a distance, unless the rod be turned to bring the reel on top. lo casting flies with a fly-rod, it is all right to have the reel beneath the rod aod the line hanging loosely in the ringp, but it is an awkward place for the reel above your hand, especially id striking your fish and retrieving your line after a cast. And when the reel is above the band, in reeling in a fish the position is necessarily awkward and ungraceful, aod the rod, unlesi you run the butt into your stomach and place your left hand above the reel, will shake, wriggle and sway like a "sawyer" in the Mississippi. We find that a large majority of expert anglers do not adopt that method of fixing their reels. 3. This method is objectionable for two reasons. First, the weight of the rod on top aod below the hand tends con- stantly to turn the rod over and the reel under, and the handle on the wrong side without a conetant and tiresome grip of tbe fingers. Secondly, when the line is wet end lays flat along tbe top of tbe rod, there is msmfold more friction in rendering or reeling up than there is when the line hangs in rings several inches apart underneath. Again, you can pull out slack for a new and longer cast much handier when the line hangs below tbe rod than when it lays flat upon the rod, as it generally will when wet. 4 In the tbe use of all rods for fly-casting, this method of placing the reel below the hand and underneath tbe rod is recommended and practiced by a large majority of anglers. Holdiog the rod thus in your band, either when tbe line is out, floating over a riille, or as you walk along reeled up, it seems to balance nicely, and gives you no muscular effort lo hold it. Your fiogere grasp tbe line when you desire to strike a big fish solid and not miss a strike by an easy spring- ing reel and a slack line. You can temper (he s
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