DIFFERENT METHODS OF CASTING 191 



action which is continued in an upward and forward, and 

 then converted into an ever increasing downward impulse, 

 which is checked as the hand reaches the horizontal. 



THE LOOP CAST FOR THE TROUT ROD 



Plates XXIV. and XXV. show the end of the loop cast 

 with the single-handed rod, the danger being immediately 

 behind the fisherman. The line has just left the water and 

 the disturbance it has made on the surface is clearly shown 

 to the immediate right of the fisherman in the latter plate. 



In this plate the rod point has been raised in the ordinary 

 way by a steady upward action, but instead of its being 

 switched backward from the water, the drawing action of 

 the hand is continued backward slightly to the right hand 

 side of the fisherman, until the rod attains its usual angle of 

 twenty-two degrees behind the vertical, and is slightly 

 inclined to the right of the body. This backward move- 

 ment of the hand is now converted into a slightly upward 

 action by lifting the arm, and the cast terminates in the 

 usual forward and downward switch of the rod. The wrist 

 has been kept rigid, the line has curled forward after the rod 

 point, and the disturbance to the right of the fisherman 

 shows where it has just left the surface. Briefly, then, 

 the action of the hand controlling the rod has been first 

 upward and then backward, and then continued in an 

 upward and forward circling action into the forward and 

 downward switch. See Plate XXIV. 



THE SWITCH CAST 



This cast, which is a side loop, bears the same relationship 

 to the loop cast that the side cast does to the overhead 

 cast. 



It is made when the rod can neither be brought back 

 vertically, or the line extended backward in the plane in 



