182 FLY FISHING AND SPINNING 



When casting either with the single-handed or with the 

 double-handed rod, in the overhead cast, unless the fly 

 in the forward cast be returned to some place in the same 

 plane from which it is taken, it can only be cast to some 

 place in some new plane, and obviously this plane must be 

 either to the right or left hand of the plane it has just left. 

 Directly this fact is appreciated, many of the difficulties 

 which apparently accompany the consideration of the various 



HORIZONTAL 



DIAGRAM 15. 



HT Rod checked at this angle in downward action leads to 

 C L Large curvature made by advancing line. 



casts which can or should be employed must vanish for 

 every cast made with a fly rod must be some variation of 

 the principle which enables the fisherman to cast backward 

 and forward in one plane, or from one plane into some other 

 plane, i.e., either from right to left, or left to right. 



I introduced in the first edition of " The Science of Dry 

 Fly Fishing/' 1906, a cast I called the " Wye " cast in the 

 following words : 



