CHAPTER X 



DIFFERENT METHODS AND STYLES OF CASTING 



Casting a long distance The Wind cast Trout rod The Wye cast 

 The Steeple and Galway casts The Side cast The Loop cast 

 The Loop cast for the trout rod The Switch cast The Spey cast 

 or throw The Loop cast instead of the Spey throw Shooting the 

 line Force used in casting The drag also the sag Avoiding the 

 drag. 



THE following methods of throwing a fly will embrace 

 every distinctive kind of cast which can be made with 

 a single-handed trout fly-rod, and I think they will be 

 found to overcome every difficulty met with when 

 fly fishing. 



A separate chapter is devoted to casting a fly with a two- 

 handed rod, but there is no difference in the angles or 

 directions through which the latter kind of rod will move, 

 and no other than a relative difference in the force which is 

 applied. The only difference is that two hands are used 

 instead of one, and the main pivot of the cast is not the 

 elbow of one arm, but a point in the rod handle, which is 

 situated midway between the two hands when holding the 

 rod. 



The reader will, I think, understand from what has gone 

 before, that the pivot of either the single or double-handed 

 rod action is in reality a moving and not a stationary one 

 (see Diagrams 163). 



The action of the two-handed rod is slower and not so 

 brilliant as the single-handed rod, and the line as a con- 

 sequence is relatively slower in its backward and forward 

 motions. 



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