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.
Lead core is bulky, so you will need the space to store the line. Just how big your reel must be depends on whether you are going to troll segmented lead core or if the reel will be filled with lead core only. Be sure to set the drag very light. If you snag, and you will, the line should be able to pull off the reel.