FLY CASTING. HI 



loop in the leader near the fly, the object being to cause 

 the fly to fall on the water as naturally and quietly as a 

 live insect, to fall before the leader, and for the latter to 

 make no commotion. The fly must remain on the surface 

 of the water just like a real insect, and must retain a life- 

 like appearance and movement. The flies are dipped in 

 an oily preparation to make them resist the water, and the 

 line is rubbed with deer fat to make it float well. This 

 method of fly fishing is being taken up in this country and 

 is proving remarkably successful. 



The method of casting the dry fly is exactly the same 

 as casting the wet fly, except that the fly is not allowed to 

 touch the water at the end of the cast but is retrieved while 

 still ten or twenty feet above the water and the cast 

 lengthened in this way, until the line reaches out to the 

 place in view, when the fly is allowed to settle to the water. 



Fly casting for salmon, with the two hand salmon rod 

 is done in the same way as casting for trout and bass, except 

 that both hands are used, and the hand that grasps the butt, 

 usually the left, is used only as a pivot for the rod, and the 

 movement of the rod is executed mainly with the right 

 hand, which grasps the upper grip. 



Fly fishing is the most refined, artistic, and sportsman- 

 like method of taking game fish any kind of fish that will 

 rise to a fly and is withal the most enjoyable. While, for 

 some kinds of fish, it may not be as productive of results 

 as some other kind of fishing, it is so much nicer in every 

 way, so much more enjoyable, that it should be better 

 understood by anglers in general. Black bass fishers es- 

 pecially, if not already acquainted with fly fishing, should 

 give it some study. There are some anglers who do not 

 even know that the black bass will take an artificial fly. 

 For trout and salmon there is nothing like it, and there are 

 other fishes also that will rise to a fly. 



