

DIFFERENT METHODS OF CASTING 183 



" The line must be first extended as much as possible 

 directly away from the spot at which the fly has to alight. 

 To do this a curved backward side motion of the point of 

 the rod must be made in the opposite direction, and while 

 this is being made, the body must have turned so as 

 to face toward the spot at which the fly has to alight ; 

 and on the time and the manner of this combined 

 movement will depend the success of the cast in the new 

 direction." 



But although the success which met the introduction of 

 the Wye cast, and which attended its use by my clients, was 

 great, I was never thoroughly satisfied as to the scientific 

 soundness of the method I was advocating. 



I now employ a new adaptation of this " Wye " cast, 

 which after most careful thought and trial, I consider by 

 far the best method of casting a fly out of one plane into 

 another, so long as the rod, line and fly can be brought back 

 in the new plane in which it has to be cast. 



The alterations of the movements of the single-handed 

 rod when fishing up-stream are made as occasion demands, 

 from right to left, or left to right ; but when fishing down 

 stream so long as the fisherman remains on one bank his 

 cast should always be made across and down-stream. 



It will thus be seen that in both styles of fishing the only 

 variations possible are from right to left and from left to 

 right. 



We will assume that the reader is teaching himself to 

 perfect this cast over grass, and that therefore he can make 

 his movements more deliberately than he could if he were 

 casting over water. The different positions which follow 

 these movements can be checked by reference to the 

 respective figures in Plate XXI. When he has learnt to make 

 the different movements correctly, he can run these move- 

 ments into one continuous action, and I should therefore 



