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lutely essential, when you attempt some of the 

 difficult throws I have just mentioned ; thus, for 

 instance, if you require the horizontal throw be- 

 tween bushes (as in fig. 22), to be made from 

 left to right, your right hand being inapt at 

 throwing backwards, or back-handed, your left 

 must be called into service. So, if you desire 

 to throw under bushes which lie at the right 

 on the same side as that on which you are fish- 

 ing, you may be sometimes better able to effect 

 the object by using the left in lieu of the right 

 hand ; and especially when the throw under 

 the bush is to be horizontally performed. There 

 is a hint which may be serviceable to you 

 upon this branch of the art, not to be omitted. 

 It is of a plan very troublesome, it must be 

 admitted, as it entails the necessity of " gathering 

 up" your fly at every throw : yet if you do not mind 

 that, you may find it of universal use in difficult 

 wooded stations, provided a short line will content 

 you, and your rod be capable of being wielded 

 by one hand. The plan is, preparatory to each 

 throw, to hold the hook between the forefinger 

 and thumb of the left hand ; then, by waving the 

 rod about backwards or forwards, from right to 

 left, or however will best suit the object (a thing 

 I leave to your practice and discretion), to get 

 the line well on the swing, and the moment you 

 feel you can thereby communicate a sufficient 



