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turn round with the wrist, making a sweep of 

 the extent of the line behind you, and with the 

 spring and power of the rod direct the fly on 

 that part of the stream where you desire it 

 should fall ; letting the line out occasionally off 

 the reel with your hand, which gives the fly a 

 very natural motion on the water, moving it 

 gradually down towards your side, when you 

 lift the line out and make another throw as 

 before a little lower down, and so on until you 

 cover the whole stream. 



You may change to the left hand when you 

 are tired with the right, or according to the 

 side you are fishing from, to facilitate and ease 

 your exertion as much as possible when throw- 

 ing a long line. When I have happened to be 

 in a barn at a farm house on the river side, I 

 have often thought when taking up the flail to 

 thrash awhile, whilst the man was resting 

 himself, that the exertion was remarkably like 

 throwing the fly with the Salmon rod, the 

 whole method appears to be in the turn of the 

 wrist and arm, for when the flail is raised up and 

 wound over the left shoulder, with a certain 

 impulse known to one's self you propel it 

 forward over the head, striking tlie sheaf on 



