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.
Put your line through the rod eyelets and tie onto your reel. hold a little pressure close to your bottom eyelet, not too much! reel as fast as you can and you should feel the water on your line as you reel. Stop a little past 3/4 full. Too full and your line will bounce off, too tight it will do the same in spurts.