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which you were meditating a smart blow on an 

 object placed above and opposite to you. Lift 

 your rod perpendicularly, and bring its point 

 semicircularly round over your right shoulder, 

 the fly and line sweeping round at the same time, 

 but in a far larger semicircle. When, in bringing 

 your rod and line round, your right hand has also 

 come round over the right shoulder, and almost 

 into contact with the right side of the head, 

 propel your rod and line forwards with a strong, 

 sharp fling, whose action is commenced by the 

 hands and wrists, and terminated and completed 

 by the muscular power from elbow-joints to 

 finger-tips being called into forcible play. In 

 making very free and long casts, recourse must 

 be had to the propelling force cf the upper as well 

 as of the fore-arms ; in fact, in these long casts 

 you must throw clean from the shoulder. In 

 throwing from the left bank, between trees, &c., 

 do not elevate the rod over either shoulder ; hold 

 it out before you in a slightly elevated, horizontal 

 position, and, bringing it back sharply to the 

 right, turn it over towards the left, and you will 

 be able to ' chuck ' your line and pitch your fly 

 downwards with the current. This is one of the 

 ways I would recommend in fishing the left bank 

 of a river, from which trees and rocks present 



