Untitled - RB-Flys

i$ PIKE AND OTHER COARSE FISH.
reels referred to in the first volume as suitable for salmon-fishing
would, in smaller sizes, be also suited to spinning, if it were not
for the question of weight. In spinning, a reel that will carry
sixty or eighty yards of jack-line is practically all that is
required, and such an endless assortment of these can now be
obtained at the tackle shops that the only difficulty lies in
making a selection. For the reasons elsewhere mentioned I
should recommend a check winch with narrow grooves and
deep side plates one of the greatest improvements which has
been introduced into reels in modern times and a check
which should be rather 'weaker than stronger,' to paraphrase
the Admiralty instructions to their recruiting officers, '
to prefer
recruits having hands rather larger than smaller.' The advantages
gained by this sort of reel over the old-fashioned shallow-plate
broad-grooved winch are increased speed inasmuch as the
diameter of the axle upon which the line is wound is enlarged
and increased power, because the handle by which it is worked
being further from the axis proportionably greater leverage is
obtained.
The handles of all reels should either be directly attached
to the side plate or so adjusted as to amount to the same thing.
The only drawback to the solid side plate is the additional
weight it gives the reel, but the advantages of the handle
thus attached are so numerous as to make other considerations
of comparatively little importance. Amongst these advantages
are the obviating of the constant entanglement of the line
round the old-fashioned detached projecting handle or rather
more correctly speaking, the crank to which the handle is
attached and the greatly increased strength, and improbability
of being broken or bent by the many little accidents that
take place during the actual business of fishing.
Of the solid reels suitable for spinning and what I here
say of reels for spinning applies equally to reels for every
description of pike-fishing Mr. Chas. Farlow's '
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