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ward, with your fly in his mouth. You will feel the 

 ecstatic and electric thrill as the first strain of the 

 salmon comes on your line, and thank Providence that 

 your Durham Ranger has not been snapped in half by 

 the rocks behind you. 



The above cast is so very useful that a diagrammatic 

 illustration will be of service to the reader to illustrate 

 the rod action described above (see Diagram 20). 



We will suppose that the rock over which we have 

 to cast is situated in the direction B on the left-hand 

 side of the page, that the precipice behind is situated 

 to the right hand of the page, while the river flows 

 toward the left-hand lower corner, as shown by the 

 arrow, and that the reader is standing above the 

 level of the rod in the right-hand corner. The line 

 is brought back from A by a right-hand side sweep 

 of the rod, the point of the latter following the dotted 

 lines C D, and the line which has been extended 

 toward A has been lifted from the water, following the 

 point of the rod, and has been brought back as shown 

 in the curved line from D. The rod has been gradu- 

 ally raised until it reaches H D, and from this position 

 it has been carried onward in a forward overhand 

 stroke, D E towards B, at which we are aiming. The 

 line following this direction has been projected towards 

 B, as shown in the curved line from E. 



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