There is probably no better reel than the ordinary click reel. It should have the handle set in the plate and not on an arm around which the line will be forever catching. For salmon fishing of course, the reel must be larger and stronger than tor trout. The advantage about the ordinary brass reel is, that it will not break if it falls even on rocks, a misfortune that is peculiarly liable to happen in salmon fishing, in which the fish have often to be followed along a dangerous and difficult shore. It may get bent, but it can still be used. The objections to it are, that it keeps the line shut in between two plates, so that it will not dry readily and may rot, and that it does not take in the line rapidly. An open reel with a large barrel, and made of gutta percha has come into vogue lately. It will wind in the line far more quickly than the ordinary click reel, and when wound in, leaves it in such a position that it will dry, hut if this reel strikes any hard substance heavily, it will fly to pieces, being as brittle as an ordinary gutta percha comb, and it does not yield the line nicely to the hand when the angler is lengthening his casts, the line binding on the narrow slit through which it runs. This reel may be made with a click or a friction screw, and should be sold very cheaply. We have used it for years in trout fishing, and cannot say that we give the old brass click reel any preference over it, and it certainly enables us to command the line more quickly when we have hooked a fish. We have not, however, as yet, slammed it against a rock, an experience that is reserved for the first time we lose our footing on the slimy, treacherous bottom of the trout brook we may be wading.