Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



long-distance caster; a man of medium 

 ability in handling a rod, by practice 

 can learn to put out a line eighty or 

 eighty-five feet with a five-ounce rod, 

 and seventy-five to eighty feet with a 

 four-ounce rod. For somewhat the 

 same reason that an athlete who can 

 lift a one-hundred-pound weight with 

 one hand can easily juggle a weight 

 of ten pounds and do almost anything 

 he pleases with it, so an angler who can 

 cast eighty or eight-five feet, makes 

 the shorter casts necessary on the 

 streams with remarkable ease and 

 skill; casting these distances without 

 effort, he can devote all his attention 

 to placing his fly accurately and deli- 

 cately. Ideas frequently held by those 

 who are not accustomed to taking part 

 in tournaments as to the "freak" tackle 

 used by distance casters are generally 

 erroneous. It is true that the typical 



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