(as represented in Illustration 3), />j' an iucrcasiugly poivcrjnl tltroiv 

 froi/i tin- top Joint. 



riiis tlu'ow, impossible with the original Spey rod, is quite easy 

 with the modern type. Hence it may safely be affirmed, that the 

 beneficial effects of this new style of rod are now made " more 

 evident." 



It IS the wish of many more than one to say that h^irlow, who has 

 supplied this rod for some little lime, so thoroughly understands the 

 action required, that on one recent occasion, a butt having been 

 fractured, he forwarded a new joint which wanted no alteration 

 whatever. In this emergency he is in front of all rivals. 



To go back to our former observations, we shall not attempt to 

 exhaust the catalogue of difficulties arising from time to time, nor is 

 it necessary to enumerate them all. But in the limits assigned to 

 further comment, it is desirable to mention that we are occasionally 

 compelled to reverse the position of the hands. It is not very easy 

 to read the signs which suggest this change, but when the wind, 

 crossing the water, blows the line actively engaged towards the inner 

 side of the river, to put the lower hand in the place of the other is a 

 matter of dire necessity. On these occasions, the line is first brougiit 

 towards the right shoulder (as usual), by working with the left hand 

 above the winch and the right below ; and then, on bringing the rod 

 round in due course o'i'cr ones /wad, from right to left, the down-cast, 

 with the hands so placed, is readily effected. 



This variation is perhaps the only one in which the uninslructed, 

 notwithstanding their acuteness of perception, are lialile to galling 

 and unceasing defeat. 



For this ideal cast, further than it has now been described, there 



