184 FLY FISHING AND SPINNING 



advise him in the first place to do nothing other than 

 acquire the different movements one by one, referring to 

 the respective figures in Plate XXI. 



He should first raise his rod steadily upward in the plane 

 into which it has been pointing, see Plate XXI., Figure 1, 

 until it is inclined upward at an angle of about sixty 

 degrees above the horizon. He should then turn toward 

 the direction in which he has to cast, leaving his arm 

 and his rod as shown in Figure 3. He should now 

 swing his hand and rod round at the same level, keeping 

 his rod pointed at the same angle of the horizon into the 

 plane in which he is now facing, until they come between 

 his eye and the spot at which he desires the fly to alight, 

 see Plate XXL, Figure 4. The backward and forward cast 

 should now be made as in the overhead cast. 



The hand and rod move in an S-shaped switch, when 

 making that portion of the Wye cast between Figure 1 

 and the finish of the backward action, the first movement 

 being upward, the second horizontal, and the third move- 

 ment backward. 



When the separate parts of this cast are thoroughly 

 learnt, the student should, as stated above, make them in 

 one continuous accelerating motion. 



When fishing dry fly he can cast as follows : Before 

 raising his rod from the No. 1 position, he should turn 

 in the first place towards the spot to which he desires to 

 cast, then by raising the rod to the required height in the 

 old plane and swinging it with increasing force into the new 

 plane, he merges it into the backward part of the overhead 

 method of casting. 



WET FLY FISHING WITH THE WYE CAST* 



When fishing wet fly, after finishing out a cast, the 

 line and fly will be extended down-stream under his 



