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Because the spinman will inevitable fall into the clutches of a pioneer spinman, I feel duty-bound to prepare the angler for his onslaught. He'll come ar you with this opening: Brother, let me tell you, you don't know how good you've got it today with all this new spinning gear on the market. Why, when I started threadlining (spinning, today), I had to soak my line overnight with a mixture of water and castor oil (glyverine was used by the more imaginative) and then keep it under wraps until I got to the stream, to keep the line moist and pliable. The only response is to remind him how good the pioneers of the sport had it in comparison to the West Coast Siwash Indian who used an abacus-like hand-held contraption and a homemade line made either of fiber or sinews! Before proceeding, a point on line tests must be clarified. American lines usually test higher than their indicated breaking strength. European lines, on the contrary, are usually accurate. When they say a line is 2 pounds they mean just that. Hence some European lines, although their diameter is quite a bit smaller, have fallen into considerable disrepute because their indicated 2-pound test does not measure up to the heavier-diametered American 2-pound test lines which actually should have been labeled anywhere from 2 - to 3-pound test.
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