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Coventry to try his i6-feet split cane made by Hardy. As 

 luck would have it, I hooked and killed a beautiful thirty-eight 

 pounder at almost the first cast, and since then, as the ad- 

 vertisement says, " I have used no other." The cane rods are 

 not, perhaps, quite so suitable for the Spey throw, yet I have 

 seen it done very efficiently with them. They are certainly more 

 easily managed when overhead casting in wind, and I nearly 

 always use the Spey throw myself with them, for, as the reader 

 probably knows, it enables the fisherman to get out a much 

 longer line, and with much less effort, than any other style 

 of casting. 



Perhaps I am expected to say something about the best 

 weather for Spey fishing, but so many people have given their 

 opinions, not always in harmony, on the comparative value of 

 east and west wind, rain, snow, and all the rest of it, that I 

 hesitate to add my own. The general idea is that a day of 

 bright sun, with a blue haze over the hills, may be better 

 spent at a picnic than in fishing, and that if you set forth on 

 a cloudy morning, with a little bite in the wind, and the tem- 

 perature of the water as nearly as possible the same as that of 

 the air, you may reasonably be more sanguine of sport than 

 when other conditions prevail. And at that I will leave it. 



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