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.
Step Two-tie line on the reel spool. 1  Run some line from the filler spool to the reel down through the three or four rod guides in front of the reel. 2  Make sure either (1) your bail is open or (2) you thread the line under the bail arm if you keep it closed.