324 FLY FISHING AND SPINNING 



The Diagrams 9 and 12 can again be referred to, and, if 

 considered as being drawn in the horizontal instead of the 

 vertical plane, will show the exact angles and bends which a 

 two-handed rod should make in this cast, the two hands 

 being employed instead of one, and moving against one 

 another in the horizontal plane instead of the vertical one. 



Before making the backward cast, the rod should be 

 lowered and all slack line taken in. The rod should then 

 be raised in the vertical plane in order to get the line well 

 on the surface of the water and then brought down side- 

 ways until it is about forty degrees to the right hand of the 

 fisherman as he faces the direction from which the fly is 

 being raised, and about thirty degrees above the horizon. 



It is then switched back with a slight upward tendency 

 to the angle of twenty-two degrees horizontally behind an 

 imaginary line drawn at right angles to the fisherman. 

 It should then be pointing at about thirty-five degrees 

 above the horizontal, and after the necessary pause to allow 

 the backward extension of the line, the forward cast is 

 made, the rod being checked before it reaches the direct 

 line in which the fly has to fall. 



THE GALWAY CAST 



This effective cast has already been described for the single 

 handed rod (see page 186) and if these instructions are care- 

 fully studied the Galway cast can easily be made with the 

 salmon rod. 



The rod is first raised to an angle of about sixty degrees, the 

 hands, arm, rod, etc., being held as in the overhead cast, 

 the thumbs up, the knuckles down, both arms bent and the 

 reel below the rod, the line being extended well in front of the 

 fisherman. 



As the body turns in the direction of the back cast, 

 the weight is transferred from the right to the left foot, 



