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THE TROUT. 



your turn, which also will be with and against you on the 

 same side, several times in an hour, as the river winds in its 

 course, and you will be forced to angle up and down by 

 turns accordingly, but are to endeavor, as much as you can, 

 to have the wind evermore on your back. And always be 

 sure to stand as far off the bank as the length will give you 

 leave, when you throw on the contrary side ; though when 

 the wind will not permit you so to do, and that you are con- 

 strained to angle on the same side whereon you stand, you 

 must then stand on the very brink of the river, and cast your 

 fly at the utmost length of your rod and line, up or down the 

 river, as the gale serves." 



Management of the Line, when Fishing either with one 

 Fly, or two or more Flies. The following minute and easy 

 method of the management of the line, and throwing the fly 

 from Taylor's " Art of Angling," will be found to be excel 

 lent advice to the young beginner. 



" When you have fixed your rod properly, with your 

 winch thereon, and brought your line from it through the 

 rings of your rod, loop on to it by the strongest end your foot 

 length,* which should be about three yards and a half long, 

 made of good strong silk-worm gut, well tied, and the knots 

 neatly whipped, running (very little) finer towards the bot- 

 tom end, at which place there must be a neatly whipped loop ; 

 then take your end fly, or stretcher, which should be made 

 of one or two lengths of good level gut, full as fine, or a little 

 finer, than the bottom link of your foot length, tied and 

 whipped neatly together, and looped nicely at the end ; loop 

 this to the end of your gut length ; and then, your drop fly. 

 just above a knot, where whipped, about a yard from the 

 end fly, to hang from the line not more than two or three 



* Called in this country a leader, as described on page 32. 



