Identifier: favoritefishfish00hens (find matches)
Title: Favorite fish and fishing
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Henshall, James A. (James Alexander), 1836-1925
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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t can be utilized also for fly-fishing,but it is rather heavy for the lightest fly-rods. While an automatic reel answersvery well for trout fishing on small streams,its spring is too light to control the move-ments of a fish as large and gamesome asthe black bass.Something It may not be amiss, in this connection, Reels °^ to venture a few remarks on reels in gen-eral. Elsewhere I have made the state-ment that the most important office of arod was in the management of the hookedfish, and not in casting the fly or bait. Percontra, the chief function of the multiply-ing reel is in casting the bait, and not inreeling in the fish. The office and inten-tion of the gearing of the multiplying reelis to prolong and sustain the initial momen-tum of the cast, in order that the bait maybe projected to a greater distance than ispossible with any single-action reel. ThisIs proven by the fact that there have beenseveral devices invented whereby the han-dle, wheel and pinion of the reel are thrown32
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The Black Bass Use out of gear to allow greater freedom to therev^olvlng spool in casting. The theorylooked feasible enough, but actual practicedemonstrated that without the sustainingaid of the gears the momentum was soonlost, with the result that the bait could notbe cast so far. All such devices have nowbeen abandoned as utterly futile. So far as the skillful management of a The Reel inhooked fish Is concerned, the multiplyingreel is no better than the single-action clickreel. For tarpon, tuna, and other verylarge fishes, where pumping Is practicedon the hooked fish, the largest multiplyingreel is of advantage in rapidly taking up theresultant slack line. And so far as poweris concerned, in reeling in the fish on astrain, the single-action reel has the advan-tage, for the force applied to the crank actsdirectly on the shaft of the spool, while Inthe multiplying reel much of the force Is lostby being distributed through the gears tothe shaft. There Is a tendency of late years, espe-

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