156 THE SCIENTIFIC ANGLER. 



spots, which the majority of anglers would rarely dream 

 of trying. A favorite freak of his with the whip was to 

 take the pipe from the teeth of a passing pedestrian by a 

 carefully calculated whirl of the lash, and this aptitude 

 was as remarkably exemplified, for a limited distance, in 

 his use of the rod. Bosworth originated the Coachman 

 Fly, so much appreciated for night-fishing. 



The cast most useful in boisterous weather is the Welsh 

 or Spey Throw. This is more commonly known to fly- 

 fishers for salmon. The line is whisked off the water by 

 an upward and backward movement of the rod, but is 

 delivered forward again by a rapid lower whisk of the 

 rod's upper portion, just as the last of the reel-line leaves 

 the top of the water. This raises the line above all im- 

 pediments and encumbrances in the shape of bushes, etc., 

 fringing the river's bank. * Personally we make our 

 longest cast by it. The usually-deemed impregnable po- 

 sitions of the most choice and best fed fish are brought 

 under fire by a resort to this cast, as indeed are all fish 

 out of the reach of the usual run of rodsters. Some fly- 

 fishers appear never to aspire to a greater distance than 

 the width of the stream or brook most fished by them. 

 For mountain or moorland stream, Scottish beck and 

 burn, and Welsh torrent, this may answer amply, but 

 upon the comparatively wide and open water something 

 further and more extensive is needed. Every fly-fisher 

 should be able to cast at least twenty yards of reel-line. 

 The importance of artistically getting out the lure is 



* The Welsh or Spey Throw is identical with the " underhand " or 

 "rolling" cast, introduced by Mr. Pritchard at the New York Casting 

 Tournament, with which he made a cast of ninety-one feet, by actual 

 measurement. This unprecedented official record I can vouch for, 

 which my presence in the boat of the judges enables me to do. The 

 Foster Brothers who have compiled the notes of the author, their father, 

 claim that he or they have thrown, with a single handed fly rod and the 

 Acme line, ninety-seven-and-a-half feet. This cast unfortunately for 

 its value of record, is not official. 



