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is lliis )ct to be saitl. The " Spcy " is not so " clean " as tlic Over or 

 Underhand, yet it is often surprising what can be done wilii it. On 

 being master of the method, which the angler will find is tiie most 

 fascinating of all, even tJiosc ornaiiienlal reaches, densely shut in by 

 trees, and sometimes teeming with fish, can often be very easily 

 worked. And it is just under these conditions, when a long line is 

 iuiperative and all other casts are either impracticable or ineffectual, 

 that its value is most highly ajipreciated. 



THE SWITCH CAST. 



This ca.iL is transacted m the furegrotuul. No portion of the line 

 ought to reach a point behind the rod when tilted at an angle of 

 forty-five degrees beyond the angler's right shoulder. 



It will therefore be seen, that although it can only deal death and 

 destruction within a comparatively limited area, the Switch is 

 eminently suited for places where the space to work the rod is even 

 less than at those adapted to the Spey. The ])laces where it has to 

 he used, Ic) put it plainly, are llmse in wliirh clustering boughs, or 

 upright rocks, close in upon the water almost immediately behind the 

 angler, and interfere with the full play of the line in other methods. 



The nature of the cast is as follows : 



With the line extended down stream, the rod is brought up to 

 and past the position seen in Illustration i, and when it reaches an 

 angle of forty five degrees in the background, the thrash-down is 

 made without interval, and without causing the hue to " circuit " more 

 than two or tiiree )-ards behind the angler. 



liul when the rod is elevated, and the fine is bnaighl m contact 



