204 FLY FISHING AND SPINNING 



NEW MUSCULAR MOVEMENT 



In order quickly and correctly to perform any new 

 muscular movement, the effort should be controlled by 

 a carefully directed mental effort, and it will be found 

 as the muscles continue to answer to a repetition of the 

 mental effort, that gradually a correct habit is formed, and 

 the student, however right or left handed he may be, by 

 thus making such a habit with one hand, has acquired the 

 ability to use his other hand with equal success in the 

 accomplishment of this action. 



It is thus that having taught my clients how to cast the 

 fly successfully with one hand, they find to their intense 

 surprise that they have also acquired the ability to use the 

 other hand in a similar cast and with a success equal in a 

 relative degree of course to the muscular development of 

 each set of muscles of the forearm. 



It is the want of analytical thought on the part of the 

 instructor which prevents his readily imparting the mental 

 methods by which he sub-consciously, or through habit 

 alone, accomplishes his master actions. He may have a 

 set of rules by which he instructs, but he rarely enforces on 

 his pupils the necessity of making those mental efforts and 

 thought processes by which alone each new muscular move- 

 ment should be controlled. Such an one may say " You 

 should do this," or that in this way, or that way, etc., but 

 he rarely tells his pupil to think out one by one each of the 

 muscular movements before making them, and then to do 

 each one correctly and with forethought, before trying to 

 combine them into one effort. 



THE GRASP ON THE ROD 



The hand holding the single-handed rod should be 

 actuated by the principal muscles of the forearm, but 

 without a rigidly controlled wrist these muscles cannot 



