STREAMCRAFT 



mental, style of fly-casting, all others being but 

 variations designed to meet special conditions 

 of weather or water or other obstacles. The rod 

 is brought back very little beyond the shoulder 

 and, after a slight pause, line and fly (or flies) 

 are shot out by action chiefly of the forearm and 

 wrist, the elbow being close to the body. We 

 have never seen the more important points that 

 should be observed better summarized than by 

 Mr. Samuel G. Camp, in the following words: 

 Remember "to hold the rod with the thumb 

 extended along the upper surface of the hand- 

 grasp; not to carry the rod too far back in the 

 back-cast [butt-joint barely beyond the vertical, 

 or back of the ear remember that the tip is 

 carried back much farther by the pull of the 

 line]; not to delay the back-cast too long, and 

 to start it forcefully [mark that]; to start the 

 forward-cast when the line first begins to pull 

 on the rod, and to start it rather easily and finish 

 strongly; and, finally, not to allow the rod to go 

 too far down toward the water at the end of the 

 forward-cast [it should stop considerably short 

 of horizontal]." 



The wrist action is an important factor 

 throughout the whole process; it is emphasized 

 in picking the fly off the water and then blends 

 with the forearm motion in making the back- 

 cast, and it is sharply in evidence at the finish 

 of the forward-cast. In wrist action lies the 

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