DIFFERENT METHODS OF CASTING 



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own bank, and having decided to make the Wye cast 

 across-stream, the fisherman glances backward to a 

 point immediately opposite to where he wishes his fly 

 to alight. 



If there be no danger in this new plane, he should lower the 

 point of his rod to the water and gather in by the hand as 

 much of his line as he deems necessary keeping the point 

 of his rod well down when doing so. He then faces across 

 stream toward the spot on which his fly has to alight, and, 

 after he has turned, steadily lifts the point of the rod 

 upwards in the plane in which it has been pointing, and 

 then sideways with a gradually accelerated pace into the 

 plane in which he now wishes to cast. If the movement 

 is properly made the rod point will be elevated from sixty 

 to seventy-five degrees above the water, and be between his 

 eye and the direction in which he has to cast. By this time 

 the cast is about leaving the water, the fisherman gives 

 the final flicking impetus of this back cast away from the 

 spot at which the fly has to alight, and finishes the cast 

 forward and downward as before. 



The student will notice that the methods of making the 

 Wye cast when fishing up-stream or down-stream are 

 identical, and are the same with the single-handed or the 

 double-handed rod. 



It will be seen by this method that the cast can be 

 made from any spot either to the right or left hand with 

 either hand uppermost, when fishing from either the right 

 or left bank of the river. Other advantages of this variation 

 of the Wye cast are as follows A greater degree of accuracy 

 is obtained and the line, if the backward cast is properly 

 made, clears the dangers on the fisherman's banks, for it is 

 brought out from the bank and towards the stream by this 

 first movement of the back cast, instead of being pulled 

 around and over these dangers, etc. 



