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manner, be taper from your very hand to your hook ; 

 your line will fall much better and straiter, and cast 

 your fly to any certain place to which the hand and 

 eye shall direct it, with less weight and violence, than 

 would otherwise circle the water and fright away the 

 fish. 



In casting your line, do it always before you, 

 and so that your fly may first fall upon the water, 

 and as little of your line with it as is possible ; 

 though if the wind be stiff, you will then of neces- 

 sity be compelled to drown a good part of your 

 line to keep your fly in the water : and in casting 

 your fly, you must aim at the further, or nearer, 

 bank, as the wind serves your turn ; which also will 

 be with and against you on the same side, several 

 times in an hour, as the river winds in it's course ; 

 and you will be forced to angle up and down by 

 turns accordingly ; but are to endeavour, as much 

 as you can, to have the wind evermore on your 

 back. And always be sure to stand as far off the 

 bank, as your length will give you leave when you 

 throw to the contrary side : though, when the wind 

 will not permit you so to do, and that you are con- 

 strained to angle on the same side whereon you 

 stand, — you must then stand on the very brink of 

 the river, and cast your fly at the utmost length of 

 your rod and line, up or down the river as the gale 

 serves. 



It only remains, touching your line, to enquire 

 whether your two hairs, next to the hook, are 



