CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



CHAPTER I. 



In laud of Fly-fishing for Salmon — Pleasant Reminiscences 

 and Anticipations of — The Salmon-fisher's Rod — Its 

 Size, Make, and Material — Winches — Salmon-lines — 

 Of what Material, and in what Way, they should be 

 made — Their length — Gut Casting-lines — A model one 

 — The Quality of Gut — Caution about Winch and Cast- 

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CHAPTER n. 



Throwing the Line and Fly described — How the Rod is to 

 be held and wielded in casting the Line — The back- 

 handed Cast — The left and right Shoulder Cast — Straight 

 Casting eulogised — Mr. Scrope's Way of Casting — Mr. 

 Stoddart's Method — How to become ambidexter — The 

 under-handed Cast— The "Welsh Throw" — The Me- 

 tropolitan straight Cast — Under-handed Casting de- 

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