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To avoid excessive wear and weakening your line, do your practice casting on your lawn with an old line. In spinning every ounce counts and the knife-edged grass unfortunately play hob with your fine line, wearing it down even faster than cement of gravel! 3A & B Figure 3. To put your line on the spool, get someone to hold the spool of the line on a pencil, and apply a bit of pressure as you roll on ten turns, holding the reel spool by the back flange (3A); then reverse and roll on (3B) ten more turns. Count them. (Some reels, like Mitchell, wind counterclockwise.) Continue winding alternately, thus avoiding a twist in your line, until you have filled the spool evenly to the curve of the lip, but don't cut it, just yet. Tie the end of the line to a limp and run out the reel's spool, winding it in again with the handle to get the proper cross-winding effect. Now, if you need more line, or less, you can make the proper adjustment. Then cut it off. PRODUCTIVE LURES No other method of fishing offers such a bewildering array of lures. By using weights, and the proper rod, reel and line, the spinman can handle just about every fishing lure made, from a tiny No. 18 Cahill dry fly to a 3-ounce salt-water jig!
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