THE FORWARD CAST. 



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shooting forward at the end of the forward cast and at the 

 moment when the rod should be lowered and the line fed. 

 It is of the first importance that when the line is in 

 the air it should always be under the influence of the force 

 applied to it by the rod. It should, in other words, be alive 

 and not dead. The end G of line A G in Diagram 3 should 

 therefore still possess backward energy when the forward 

 cast is made. The wind, when against the back cast, will 

 frequently destroy the backward energy of the line before it 

 has fully extended itself, the end of the line thus becoming 



DIAGRAM 3. SHOWING POSITIONS OF ROD IN FORWARD CAST. 

 A G, position of line when commencing cast. (See Plate V.} 

 A F B, angle of forward cast. 

 BCD, line coming forward as fore cast is finished the moment for 



lowering the rod. 

 F E, final position of rod. (Plate II.) 



dead. This is a fruitful source of danger, as the forward 

 switch of the rod communicates itself to the dead portion of 

 the line with a jerk, which cracks off the fly. The same result 

 may happen when insufficient energy is applied to the 

 back cast. 



Diagram 4 shows the increase of force used and the 

 direction taken by line in the forward cast. 



