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on the right side of the body. The most common use 

 which this cast is put to is in making a new cast when 

 fishing down-stream. After a cast has been fished out, the 

 line of the fisherman will have been worked round more or 

 less under his own bank, and a fresh cast has now to be 

 made in order to extend the fly more or less across the pool 

 or portion of the river which has to be fished. 



The easiest and most useful cast for this purpose is the 

 Wye cast, as described on page 181. As directed, the 

 fisherman looks backward and away from the new position 

 in which he wishes his fly to fall, and if everything is clear 

 for extending the line in the new plane, he should make the 

 Wye cast, but if any dangers exist in this plane, he may then 

 adopt some variation of the Spey cast. When making the 

 Spey throw there must be a more less extension of the line 

 in a curve up-stream, and just how much curve can be 

 made in this extension will depend on the proximity of the 

 dangers in the background. 



Taking the danger as being close to and parallel with the 

 bank on which the fisherman stands (see Plate XXVI.), it is 

 obvious, first, that any great extension of the line behind 

 him is impossible, and secondly, that the complete extension 

 of the line up-stream will place his line in a position almost 

 as difficult to cast from as that in which it now lies that 

 is, if a cast has to be made more or less across-stream (see 

 Plate XXVI.). 



But by now adopting a combination of the Loop and Switch 

 casts, called the " Spey Throw," he is able by an up-stream 

 motion to get, first, a certain extension only of his line 

 up-stream, leaving the balance of the line well on the top of 

 the water down-stream, or secondly, to lift his line from the 

 water by a modified up-stream side cast, and deposit it on 

 the water just above and clear of the plane in which his 

 line has to travel across-stream. 



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