482 AMERICAN FISHES. 



sport with a less one than eighteen feet, and that is full short. Of 

 course you use both your hands. But the position of the upper one 

 is still the same as when you use a single hand for trout ; the turn of 

 the hand and wrist (only you have to straighten your elbow more and 

 raise your arm) is still the same the same oval sweep to save your 

 flies from cracking ; the same rest, only longer, when the line is behind 

 you. 



Every thing is the same, even the stay to save the splash, except 

 that the back of the left hand, if you are right-handed (but this you 

 ought not to be, left-handed fishing the right bank of the stream, 

 right-handed when fishing the left) down, the left hand up. The right 

 hand should be eighteen inches above the reel; 

 Line. shore. t ] ic le ft lian(i w i t hi n a f ew inches of the butt. 



After delivering your line, you may rest the butt 

 against your hip or your groin. Mind, if you do 

 this, to have the butt well rounded, or else you 

 will soon establish a very fine raise ; you can rest 

 your right arm now by taking hold with the left. You must fish 

 more down the stream than for Trout, making an acute angle between 

 a line from the opposite shore to you and the direction of your rod. 



Beware of "bellying" your line, as mentioned before; keep the line 

 at a stretch all the time, giving it a slight "undulating motion" up 

 and down, and gradually yet slowly draw it toward the side you are 

 on. Don't fish a longer line than you can manage. That is the 

 way you are to act when all is clear behind you ; but may I be so 

 bold as to inquire how you mean to manage under that high over- 

 hanging crag with all those nice trees growing down to the water-side, 

 'tis a beautiful hole "en veriie" and must be fished. "I really don't 

 know," say you ; " my line will be fast in the trees if I throw behind 

 me." That I also know, and, moreover, that you cannot bring it be- 

 hind you up stream, if you mean in any ways to cast across it. But 

 come, I. will put you up to the spicy dodge I mentioned a while ago, 

 and although your rod is not the thing, we can manage middling in- 

 differently with it. 



Mind, it is the most difficult style of throwing, but is also, when 

 learnt, unquestionably the best. It will astonish you with the length 

 of line even your rod will take ; mine would throw fully one-third 

 further. 



