318 FLY FISHING AND SPINNING 



DIAGRAM 16. 



Figures A, B, C, and D show the movements of the arms and rod in the 



backward cast. 



A, the general elevation of the rod when fishing. 

 A, B, C, D, the sweep of the rod in its backward action. 

 D, the angle at which the rod pauses before commencing the 



forward stroke. 

 D, C, B, A, The sweep of the rod in its downward action. 



The upper, or right hand, must be drawn backward with 

 an accelerating motion to a point just above the head, while 

 at the same time, the lower or left hand, acting as a moving 

 fulcrum to the force applied by the right hand, is forced 

 forward, the rod being checked, as shown, at an angle of 

 about twenty-two degrees behind the vertical line of the 

 body. (See Plates XXXVII. and XL.). 



The rod, as it is raised (see Plate XXXIX.), being retarded at 

 its point by the weight and frictional resistance of the water 

 to the line, bends downward and the right hand becomes the 

 dominant power, while the left hand is the secondary power 

 as well as the guiding force and the fulcrum on which this 

 power works when making the back cast, a point midway 

 between the two hands being the pivot on which the action 



