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.
Tighten it well and carefully reel the backing and the attached fly line onto the reel. It will now be filled to the correct level and the right end of the fly line will be ready for the leader or a leader butt or loop or whatever you want to put on the end.