HOW TO HOLD THE SALMON-ROD. 21 



The salmon-rod is to be held with both hands, 

 one above, and the other below the winch. In 

 throwing from the right side, the right hand is to 

 grasp the rod above the winch, the left below it. 

 In casting from the left shoulder, the left hand is 

 to be first and the right last; that is, it must 

 clutch the rod between the winch and the extreme 

 butt-end of the rod. In fishing down a river on 

 its right side, the left-shoulder cast is to be used ; 

 in fishing from the left bank, the right-shoulder 

 throw is the proper one. Stand at the head of a 

 stream, looking down it as it runs from you, the 

 bank on your right side is the right-hand bank ; 

 that on the left, the left-hand shore. In as- 

 cending a river, the left-hand bank is on your 

 right side, and the right-hand bank on your left. 

 This explanation may be deemed superfluous, but 

 I fancy it will enable me hereinafter to be more 

 perspicuous than if I had not given it. 



I'll suppose the salmon-fisher coming down the 

 right side of a river, and that above him, to his 

 right, are cliffs or trees, — how can he bring back to 

 that side over his right shoulder, rod and line, with- 

 out causing them to come into collision with the 

 impediments behind him on his right ? He can do 

 so in two ways — the first in greater part wrong, 

 the other perfectly right. The first and imperfect 



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