16 THROWING THE LINE AND FLIES. 



lower ribs. Your position, the limbs, &c. arranged 

 in the above way, will be easy and graceful, allow- 

 ing free play to all the muscles required to be 

 brought into action. 



I deem you now sufficiently skilled by practice 

 to throw four or five yards of line well, and with 

 satisfactory ease. Double, then, the length of 

 your line out. The right-arm motion must be no 

 longer limited to the wrist, fore-arm, and elbow 

 joint, but must extend to the upper and shoulder 

 joint. The os humeri and deltoid muscle must 

 be called into requisition with fine free vigour, 

 but not with so much of the latter as if you were 

 about to strike a knock-down blow. The whole 

 of the arm must be brought round to the right 

 with an easy, large sweep, and the line thrown 

 forward well from the shoulder. There must be 

 no coachman-like jerk with the wrist backwards, 

 as the front portion of the line is descending to 

 the water, but the hand must follow the rod, and 

 stop by a well-timed degree of suddenness, so 

 that the line will fall on the water with a some- 

 what quick not plashing rather than a lazy 

 floating motion, 



As soon as you can throw from eight to ten 

 yards of your reel-line with the power of making 

 not more than a yard or two of the front portion 

 of it fall lightly on the water, and in whatsoever 

 direction you may chcose, add to it what is called 



