CHAPTER IV 



CASTING AND WORKING THE FLY 



" Who has not seen the Scarus rise, 

 Decoyed and caught by fraudful flies ? " 



IT will be long ere the art of casting for 

 salmon in this country approximates the per- 

 fection it has attained many years since in the 

 British Isles. The rivers are so much larger 

 here, on the average, that most of the fishing is 

 done from a boat or canoe, which renders unnec- 

 essary the employment of switching, or any of the 

 various underhand casts without a knowledge 

 of which angling would be practically impos- 

 sible in many of the best rivers of Britain. 

 The time will doubtless come when these things 

 will be studied and learned here ; but now, though 

 we have anglers equal to any in overhand casting, 

 I should not know where to look for one posted, 

 practically, in the mysteries of any of the other 

 methods. 



The overhand or ordinary cast is made by 

 lifting the line out of water to the end where 



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