THE WATER OR 

 SWITCH CAST 



FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



of one hundred feet of line travelling back and 

 forth in a perfectly true form driven by a six 

 ounce rod is indeed a fine exhibition of skill and 

 rod of which any one might justly be proud. 



This peculiar " style of 

 manipulating " the line 

 is performed thus. Fifty 

 feet of line is reeled from 

 the reel, the rod tip is then lifted rather quickly 

 to a perpendicular position, an outward quick 

 stroke followed by a rather slow drawing in of 

 the line towards the body until the rod is again 

 perpendicular, makes one complete motion, which, 

 being continued from the line into coils, which 

 increase in dimensions and numbers until a final 

 effort lands the line its entire length on the water. 

 For expert exhibition casting it is very entertain- 

 ing. It is hardly a practical fishing method. 



This cast is, to our 

 mind, the ideal way 



THE SIDE CASTING 



to handle the line 

 when we wish to "angle," it being carried back 

 and forth at the side instead of overhead. We 

 cast the line twenty feet perhaps, the rod, drop- 

 ping close to the water, is swung around to the 

 side. When at nearly right angles with the body, 

 it is inclined upwards to " shoulder high," the line 

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