THE ART OF CASTING 



whether level or tapered, and anything over six 

 ounces a D line. 



Having then provided yourself with a rod 

 equipped with a line the weight of which is 

 suited to that rod's resiliency, you may proceed 

 with some casting practise, on a stretch of short 

 grass or on the snow in lieu of a convenient 

 piece of water, placing a barrel-hoop, newspaper, 

 or square of colored cloth about thirty feet 

 distant for a target. Attached a well-soaked 

 and straightened leader (one that has been dried 

 on the stretch) to the line and put one fly on 

 the end of the leader, having first cut off the 

 point of the hook. 



The styles of fly-casting which the angler 

 should at least know about whether or not he 

 becomes familiar with all, are: the overhead 

 or overhand; underhand or side; switch or 

 Spey; loop or grasshopper; wind or steeple; 

 flip or snap; and the dry-fly. Of bait-casting 

 -"spinning," as the English term it he should 

 know about the ordinary cast, strip-casting, and 

 casting in the Greenwood-Lake style, with the 

 long bait rod; and then he can essay casting 

 from the quadruple-multiplying reel, with the 

 short rod, Kalamazoo style. If upon practical 

 acquaintance with the foregoing his ambition is 

 not yet quenched, he can further try out all 

 these with the left hand. 



The overhead cast is the parental or funda- 



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