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.
To take up the excess space in the reel to give you a better ratio reeling up the line. This is very important. Imaging winding line around a spool of thread. It would take you a very long time to wind up even a few feet of line. Now imagine winding your line around something closer to the size of a pop can.