20 FOR WHOM THIS BOOK IS INTENDED. 



CHAPTER II. 



ON THROWING TUE LINE. — THE VARIOUS MODES OF DOING 

 SO DESCRIBED AND EXPLAINED. 



I CONFESS I find very great difficulty in showing 

 by writing how a line should be best cast in fly- 

 fishing for salmon. By the river side, wdth rod in 

 hand, the thing could be easily taught. I should 

 fear failure in the attempt I am now about to 

 make, did I not take it for granted that the ma- 

 jority of my readers are already more or less 

 practically versed in fly-fishing for trout. I beg 

 it to be borne in mind that I am not now writing 

 for the instruction of mere piscatorial tyros ; that 

 I am not composing a book solely for fishing fresh- 

 men, but rather for the finishing study of halieutic 

 graduates. Encouraged by the conviction that the 

 fly-fisher for trout will understand me, though, 

 perhaps, I shall write too minutely to be very 

 clear, I shall proceed to lay down new rules for 

 throwing the salmon-line, and then have recourse 

 to what I have written before, and what a few 

 others, whom I consider citable authorities, have 

 before and since written on the subject. 



