How to Get Them 



be beyond the perpendicular. The higher the fly on 

 the back cast, if straight, the less force is required 

 to send it forward, and the knack of 

 S ettin g il into that position or any 

 other, whereby the fly is straightened 

 out on the back cast, is in applying sufficient sud- 

 den force as it leaves the water, where there is 

 some resistance to add to, the impetus necessary 

 to put it where it is wanted. To use sufficient 

 power in the right place, to get the fly straight out 

 behind, and to know just when to begin the for- 

 ward motion (the principal force in which is 

 exercised at the first part of it, with just sufficient 

 in the remainder of the cast to guide the fly and 

 make it alight properly) can only be learned by 

 practice; which, after a long enough time, enables 

 one to cast far and fine without any consciousness 

 of the methods employed. 



Comparatively few fish are killed on casts of 

 over twenty-five yards and the great majority on 

 considerably shorter ones. It is impossible to 

 give actual directions how best to cast; the nearest 

 to it that can be done is shown in the cuts. The 

 best cast, and the most scientific, known as the 

 Spey, is accomplished either by wading or when 

 standing on the bank of the river. It can only be 

 acquired by much practice, and specially 

 by forgetting trout methods, which are 

 delicate and gentle compared to salmon angling 

 and its tackle. Luck does perform the most ex- 

 traordinary feats on salmon rivers, but none the 

 less is it true that the angler who throws the long- 

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