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Fly Rods for Strip Casting
The fly-rod is used for strip-casting because, to obtain the best results, the reel-seat must be below the hand grasp. The rod should not be less than ten feet in length—for strip-casting purely, a ten-and-a-half-foot rod is none too long, but you will probably wish to use a rod which may also be utilized for fly-casting. As the cast is made by shooting the line through the guides of the rod, these should be of a style which will allow free-running of the line.
A fly-rod to be specially used for strip-casting would be best rigged in the matter of guides by using fairly large caliber German silver trumpet guides with agate hand and tip guides. If your fly-rod is fitted with "snake" guides, these will answer the purpose. The addition of the agate guides is very desirable in either case. A bass fly-rod weighing from seven to eight ounces is best adapted to strip-casting, but any trout fly-rod having sufficient backbone may be used.
Camp, Samuel Granger. The Fine Art of Fishing. New York: Outing Pub., 1911. Print.
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