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banks, and other places, and where in general 

 the best fish are found." 



Colonel Hawker gives the following recom- 

 mendations : "In throwing a fly, raise the 

 arm well up, without labouring with your body. 

 Send the fly both backwards and forwards by a 

 sudden spring of the wrist. Do not draw the 

 fly too near, or you lose your purchase for send- 

 ing it back, and, therefore, require an extra 

 sweep in the air before you can get it into play 

 again. If, after sending it back, you make the 

 counter-spring a moment too soon, you will 

 whip off your tail-fly, and if a moment too late 

 your line will fall in a slovenly manner. The 

 knack of catching this time is, therefore, the 

 whole art of throwing well. The motion 

 should be just sufficiently circular to avoid this ; 

 but if too circular, the spring receives too 

 much check, and the gut will then most proba- 

 bly not drop before the line. In a word, allow 

 the line no more than just time to unfold, be- 

 fore you repeat the spring of the wrist. This 

 must be done, or you will hear a crack, and 

 find that you have whipped off your tail-fly. 

 For this reason, I should recommend beginners 

 to learn at first with only a bob ; or they will 

 soon empty their own, or their friends' fishing- 

 book. And, at all events, to begin learning 

 with a moderate length of line. . . . Sometimes 



