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wieldinor of the ofolf club, and it is doubtful if in a com- 

 pany of half a dozen expert anglers there will be found 

 two by whom the rod is handled in precisely similar 

 fashion. All achieve their purpose, though in achieving 

 it each displays a manner in some respects peculiarly 

 his own. 



In the maze of conflicting theories the youthful 

 angler is in danger of becoming hopelessly perplexed. 

 We are taught by one instructor that casting involves 

 the employment of considerable force, while a second 

 begs us to remember that pressing 

 is as fatal to the success of the 

 angler as to the success of that 

 zealous tiller of the soil — the golfer. 

 Now we are informed that in its 

 downward swing the rod should be 

 checked when it makes with the 

 horizontal an angle of forty-five de- 

 grees, and again, that it should not 

 be brought to rest until it is parallel 

 with the surface of the water. One angler, in the 

 process of throwing the line, gradually reduces the 

 speed at which his rod is moving ; another stops his 

 rod entirely in its downward course, and, after a mo- 

 mentary pause, drops it to a horizontal position. 



