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impossible ; and without a line made for the 

 express purpose, no man can accomplish the 

 throw. The line must increase in thickness from 

 the point for about twenty-five yards ; nearly the 

 last half of these twenty-five yards being very 

 heavy. The object of this is, that the weight of 

 the upper part shall be such as to force forward 

 the lighter end, with the gut and fly. The 

 greatest weight of line being at the point of the 

 rod, sends out the lighter part with much less 

 exertion to the angler than is required for the 

 usual over-handed throw. And it possesses an- 

 other material advantage : that you can fish those 

 catches or casts from the bank, which you could 

 not command, unless in a boat ; for, as the line is 

 never brought behind you, no rock, tree, or bank 

 impedes the throw. The fly, too, can be pitched 

 very much farther by this than by any other 

 means. The economy of manual exertion, the 

 being enabled to fish in any cramped place, and 

 the sending out a greater length of line, surely form 

 a triad well worthy the salmon-fisher's notice." 

 I think one sentence in the above passage — on 

 the whole a very useful one — somewhat obscure, 

 and therefore requiring elucidation. The sen- 

 tence I mean is this : — "^ The fly is brought as 

 near you as the length of line will admit [that is. 



