1. The Thank You School Bus Drivers poem (below) is the cover of a FABULOUS Thank You Book that will be dropped off for the bus drivers to keep in their meeting room.
Attach the fly reel to the fly rod using only the butt section of the rod if it is two pieces or more. Take the tag end of the backing and run it through the rod guides and attach it to the reel spool or arbor with the appropriately named arbor knot. To do this, first make a basic overhand knot around the line.
Once you find a baitcasting reel that you are comfortable using, use a heavy monofilament line to spool your reel. Using a heavy line will make learning, and dealing with backlashes, a whole lot easier. Ideally, you should only have a half a spool or one fourth or half an inch of spool.