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THE RIGHT-HAND 



but the whole curve is unfortunately not included in 

 the plate, as it would perhaps have shown more clearly 

 the result of a slight fault in the back cast. In this 

 photograph I have brought the rod too far behind the 

 shoulder, to an angle of nearly 50 degrees instead of 



DIAGRAM 14. 



Figures A, B, C, and D show the movements of the arms and 

 rod in the backward cast. 



A, the general elevation of the rod when fishing. 



B, the angle to which the rod has to be raised. 



B, C, D, the switch of the rod in its backward action. 

 D, the angle at which the rod pauses before commencing 

 the forward stroke. 



35 degrees, and the line has in consequence contracted 

 a downward tendency of the lower part of the loop in 

 its backward progress, this fault affecting the line in 

 the forward cast which follows it (see Plate XXV.), the 

 line being too low in its forward movement. This 



