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.
Similarly to how you would set up braided line, you want to use a solid monofilament line as a backing on the reel. Spool about twenty to thirty yards of monofilament line before you add your lead core. Next, you want to tie your lead core onto the backing.