38 UNDER-HANDED CASTING COMMENDED. 



and line are brought backwards horizontally to 

 the left side, and then propelled down stream to 

 the right. I strongly recommend the practice of 

 casting under-hand. It is the best substitute for 

 over-hand, or any sort of casting from the shoulder ; 

 and an adept at it will be rarely nonplussed by 

 natural or artificial obstructions obtruding them- 

 selves in any way or on any side. A short or a 

 long line can be well thrown by these side-casts, 

 and it is not always necessary to develope fully, 

 in a backward direction, the line in making them. 

 The line need only be brought partly back, and 

 then turned over by a turn of the rod ; and simul- 

 taneously with the turn, shot forwards over, and 

 on to, the water. 



I am afraid I have been tediously minute in 

 this chapter. Should I be considered so, my de- 

 fensive plea must be " the love I bear for salmon- 

 fishing is in fault." That love renders the faintest 

 features of the art interesting in my eyes, and so 

 I could not refrain from elaborating them usque ad 

 unquem. 



