174 THE DRIFFIELD ANGLER. 



or five inches to where you wish to have it 

 on the water, in a very natural way, and no 

 part of your wheel-line will touch the water : 

 when once an angler gets this method of 

 throwing, he will be able to throw with a six- 

 teen feet rod, from eighteen yards to two 

 or three and twenty neatly; and also will 

 be enabled to throw ten or twelve yards in 

 the wind's eye to the opposite bank, which 



will enable him to kill more Trout than any 



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other angler, except he manages his rod and 

 line in the same way ; but this can only be 

 attained by practice : for this reason, when 

 he throws his flies to the opposite side, the 

 wind and stream will bring the flies more 

 naturally down and cross-ways on the stream, 

 than throwing downwards : and if the angler 

 will but observe when a Trout or Salmon is 

 hooked from the opposite bank, that he is 

 always well hooked and killed ; and most fish 

 that take the fly a little across and against 

 the stream, are never well hooked, and sel- 

 dom killed ; although at times they will 

 give some play and get loose at the last, 



