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forward impetus is given. If rightly achieved, this 

 will carry out the line loosed (without interfering 

 with the precision of the cast), thus reaching a greater 

 distance than could be attained in the usual way. 



Another, and perhaps a still more successful way 

 in which additional distance can be covered, we here 

 append. Loop down the line from between the 

 rings of the second joint in one or more links, 

 these can be held by a finger of the hand upper- 

 most on the rod's butt, let go as before, when 

 the line is surging forward, prior to it straightening 

 out and descending over the liquid expanse. 

 Greater facility is afforded by this resource for 

 the passage of the reserve line through the rod 

 rings. In taking a long line from the water, the 

 strain upon the rod is much more marked than 

 is that borne in its delivery. It is, in fact, the 

 constant lifting of lengths of line partly submerged 

 that permanently warps and bows the rod to the 

 side occupied by the rings. This is often so marked 

 a tendency, that the periodic reversal of the rings 

 is rendered necessary. In the case of a really 

 good rod this weakening is seldom exemplified, but 

 as all rods do not come under the category here 

 implied, it will be perhaps as well for us here 

 to notice a simple though effective method of 

 obviating this necessity of ring changing, i.e., 

 when whisking out and back the line, the rings 

 may be brought uppermost by a twist of the 

 wrist ; this utilises the strain and counterbalances 

 the effect when the joints are beginning to give 



