100 ON TROUTING WITH THE FLY. 



to branch off or depend from it, by the knotting 

 on, at the proper point, b, of a new thread. 



In the formation of the fly-cast, always commence at 

 the stretcher or trail-hook, allowing the droppers to 

 incline upwards. To connect the casting-line, properly 

 so called, with the uppermost bob, employ three or four 

 threads of good picked gut, and in fine fishing, if thought 

 necessary, increase the number. 



For troutiiig with the artificial fly, the rod used may 

 either, according to circumstances, be single or double- 

 handed. In casting the line, after drawing off the 

 requisite quantity from your reel or winch, lift the flies 

 well up from the surface of the water, and observe that 

 you do so without any jerk or undue violence ; at the 

 same time employing some degree of rapidity in the 

 execution of the movement. When the rod has been 

 sufficiently thrown back to accomplish this object, allow 

 it a single moment of suspense, and then, by a natural 

 turn of the wrist and arm, cause the line to describe a 

 circle above your head, after which, the flies having been 

 brought fully round, urge them immediately from you 

 towards the spot where you wish them to alight. This 

 advice is especially applicable in throwing from the left 

 shoulder. It is not always so as respects right-shoulder 

 casting, which may be managed, when the space behind 

 is quite clear and level, without checking the line, but 

 on the contrary, allowing it its full swing or play directly 

 in rear of the angler. 



Such instructions hold good, equally, in regard to 



