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.
Attach the fly line backing to the end of the fly line. You can tell which end is the right end by reading your fly line taper. The tapered end goes on last. Un-spool your fly line and then find the taper, then find the bitter end. Tie the backing to the reel using a nail knot.