n6 LETTERS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 



for a fish so lying, and for every fish, too, which you may 

 see rising straight above you when you are wading. This is a 

 cast which shall give the fly a little flick round at the end, 

 so that it falls on the water rather to the left presuming 

 that you are throwing right-handed and fore-handed of the 

 rest of the line. I have called this the " interrogation cast " 

 because the gut, with the fly at its end, falls in something like 

 the form of the mark that we make after writing a question, 

 thus " ? " If you will throw horizontally and give a little 

 check, with the slightest possible pull back, as the fly 

 reaches the limit of its outgoing, you will find that 

 you will achieve it after a little practice. Personally, I 

 can do it to admiration on a lawn ; it is only when I try 

 to put the interrogation mark to the fish that I usually 

 do it so bunglingly that his answer is almost inevitably 

 in the negative. 



