SPINNING WITH A SALMON REEL 377 



" Pay attention to what you are looking at. A 

 person whose eye is always wandering gives evidence 

 of an unstable mind," 



or in other words A wandering eye denotes a wandering 

 thought. 



A habit having already been formed as to the angle at 

 which the drum has to be released from the controlling 

 influence of the pawl, a perfectly even accelerating 

 movement as in mowing should be made towards and 

 through this angle to a point at right angles to D,* the motion 

 of the rod diminishing from that point until it comes to a 

 state of rest as shown in Figure 3. 



At the moment when the lure is released, it should have 

 been flying round in a line with the rod and concentric 

 with the rod top. The effect of releasing the drum and 

 allowing the centrifugal force to come into play will be to 

 permit the lure to fly outward and apparently, to the eye 

 of the fisherman, be retarded slightly behind the direction 

 in which the rod is moving, but as the frictional resistance 

 of the air to the line, and the frictional resistance of the 

 rings of the rod to the line, etc., come into play, and as the 

 motion of the rod gradually diminishes, the lure, curving 

 inward, may again pass the direction in which the rod is 

 pointing and proceed in a gradually flattening curve to D. 

 The body should be kept as upright as possible and the 

 weight altered from foot to foot as in the golf stroke. 



The whole of these movements should be carefully con- 

 sidered, until the thoughts which have to accompany the 

 actions become a mental habit, and if then the above method 

 of spinning be adopted, great accuracy in casting will be 

 attained not as a knack, but as a habit. 



Briefly, when the position No. 1, Plate LIL, is taken up, 

 the attention should be directed to swinging the rod with a 



* See Diagram 23. 



