250 CASTING SALMON-FLIES. 



METHOD OF CASTING AND MANCEUVRING 



SALMON-FLIES. 



As I fully detailed the proper method of casting the 

 fly-line, while treating of trout-fishing, in a former 

 chapter, it is unnecessary to repeat the same here, as, so 

 far as the mere casting is concerned, the method is pre- 

 cisely the same in both cases, only using two hands to 

 the rod in the latter case, in place of wielding it with 

 one, as in trout-fishing but here the resemblance 

 ceases. Although both the salmon and eriox are ex- 

 ceedingly wary, suspicious, and sharp-eyed gentry, yet 

 as the majority of the streams and pools in which they 

 take up their quarters are generally of much greater 

 depth, and rougher on the surface, than such as harbour 

 the trout, it neither is necessary, nor yet is it possible, 

 from the greater size and weight of the flies and tackle, 

 to cast with that extreme nicety and delicacy so 

 essential to success in trout-fishing ; while the fish in 

 question do not seem to be so easily alarmed at any 

 little disturbance the line may produce on alighting on 

 the water. The great object in salmon-fishing is to throw 

 a long, rather than a fine line, so as to command as 

 extensive a sweep of water as possible, as well as to 

 keep the sportsman well out of sight when the fish rise 

 to the surface. 



The most likely part of a water to harbour a 

 salmon, will be close by the side of the strongest and 

 deepest part of the current towards the centre of a 



