SPINNING WITH A SALMON REEL 375 



Figure 2, Plate LIL, will show the position of the 

 body just after the drum of the reel has been released. 

 It will be noticed that the rod has risen from an 

 angle of twenty-two degrees to about forty-five degrees 

 above the horizon. The body is now facing sideways 

 at right angles to the line of D.* The weight of the 

 body now rests evenly on both feet, both arms are bent, 

 and the accelerating motion of the rod has just reached 

 its culminating point. The drum being released, the lure 

 is flying off more or less at a tangent to the circle made by the 

 rod point. As has already been explained the tangential 

 direction is now being affected by several curbing factors., 

 and by their influence it will be drawn gradually round 

 until it is, while gradually losing its speed, proceeding in an 

 almost direct line to its destination, D. The drum of the 

 reel, however, is not losing its speed to the same extent as 

 the lure, and its rotation has, as explained previously, to be 

 delicately retarded. 



Figure 3, Plate LIL, shows the end of the forward cast. 

 The weight of the body is now resting more on the left foot, 

 the rod point has dropped to a slightly lower angle, and the 

 lure is falling towards D.* The arms are still bent, and the 

 rod is pointing to the right hand of the line D (Diagram 23), 

 but the rod still follows the line as it settles down, and should 

 ultimately point to the spot at which the lure falls on the 

 water, the pressure of the finger being then released, and the 

 reel allowed to resume its normal condition. 



If the correct manipulation of the reel has been made into 

 a habit, the whole attention can be devoted to the movement 

 of the rod ; the arms should do the work, swinging the body 

 at the same time as the rod. 



The difficulty in casting from the spinning reel is that the 

 mind has to be concentrated on a rod motion, which is made 



*See Diagram 23. 



