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shoots forward again, as much more slack as 

 possible is carried out through the guides, thus 

 considerably increasing the length of the cast. 

 The fishing cast is made with the casting-arm 

 fully extended and with a swing of the whole 

 body from right to left, in the direction that it 

 is intended to land the bait. 



A modification of strip-casting is sometimes 

 employed in boat fishing with the short casting- 

 rod, but one having the reel below the hand. 

 The rodster generally is seated, and the over- 

 head cast is used exactly as soon to be described, 

 except that instead of casting from and also re- 

 trieving the line by means of the multiplying- 

 reel, the line runs out from coils laid in the bot- 

 tom of the boat and is then retrieved by the 

 left hand, in the short jerks characteristic of all 

 strip casts. The reel may be single-action and 

 the click is on. The line is held until the end of 

 the swing, and subsequently rendered and con- 

 trolled, between the first and second fingers of 

 the rod-hand. 



"Bait-casting" has come to be understood to 

 mean the casting of artificial bait directly from 

 the reel and by means of a short rod, as dis- 

 tinguished from casting the lighter natural or 

 artificial baits with a long rod. The method 

 originated in the West and has had a rapid 

 growth in popularity. It is applicable either to 

 lake or stream. The writer well recalls the 

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