292 FLY FISHING AND SPINNING 



below you, keeping as much out of sight as possible. You 

 first lower the point of your rod down stream, paying out 

 just enough line to fish the nearest upper portion of the run. 

 When the line is fully extended, you face across stream to 

 the spot at which you wish your fly to alight, keeping 

 your rod pointing down stream while doing so. You 

 then raise your rod steadily until the line is well to the 

 surface of the water, and bring the rod steadily round until 

 it is between your eye and the place at which the fly has to 

 fall ; then without stopping, convert this movement of the 

 rod into the backward switch (see Plate XXXII. ), pausing 

 as usual to allow the line to extend itself behind you before 

 making your forward downward switch. You then make 

 your forward cast, lowering the rod into the normal fishing 

 position. Follow the line with the rod keeping the top 

 pointing slightly up-stream as the line and fly are carried 

 down stream and brought into a straight line below 

 you. 



While your rod has been following the fly as it is swept 

 down stream, you should be giving a series of steady up 

 and down movements to the rod point, at intervals of about 

 two seconds, which will have the effect of giving a slight 

 jigging motion to the fly. 



If a salmon has not acknowledged your fly, you can, 

 after a short pause, during which you should continue to 

 work the fly as it lies below you, repeat this cast, but this 

 time vary the movement of working your fly, or do not work 

 it, but let your rod sweep slowly round, keeping the top 

 pointing as before at least twenty degrees above, viz., to 

 the up-stream side of the fly. 



You should now let out about a yard of your line and 

 repeat your cast as before, taking care to cast as light and 

 straight a line as possible, and fishing very carefully as 

 your fly leaves the more rapid and enters the deeper part of 



