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tlic rod firsL niu\cs oiiliicin/s. \^ 



" You were told that by usini 

 from the fisherman in a ilireclitj 

 inwards." 



" Oh, ah! I forgot that." 



" You must foryet nothing." 



However, leaving for awhile the thrashdowii, what has the 

 fisherman to do in process A?— which he would do well to read twice 

 over. 



The answer is, that he has to lift the line out of the water so that 

 some ten yards of it next the lly is hrotight m coiitait with the surface 

 beside him (say at the point X, which represents the lly in illustration 

 2), and there made to skim along i)ast him a short distance, from left 

 to right, in order that the thrash-down may be rendered safe, 

 practical, and effectual. In its passage towards him, the line siiould 

 travel as near the surfac e of the river as possible. 



That, in the briefest of words, is what he has to d(j ; the rest is 

 mere clnkl's play. 



l!ut /low is this to be tlone ? That's the question. 



The leading moveiiwnt of the point of the ro<l is necessarily 

 against the current, outwards, downwards, and away from the person 

 in a right hand direction. In pursuing its course, the rod comes round 

 in a pear-shaped sweep towards the person till it reaches a point in 

 the air, which would be indicated by the right arm extended slightly 

 above a horizontal position, and slightly in front of a line made by the 

 two arms extended as on a cross. As soon as this point in the air is 

 reached, the II)-, away down stream, quits the water, at wliicli moment 

 the thrash-down is commenced and carried out, obliciuely across the 



