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with eddies, helping it on rather than holding it back, the line will 

 belly inwards so much as to require handling in a different way. The 

 object is to make the line belly outwards (as shown by the dotted 

 line), so that, in making the thrash-down, it tugs the point of the rod. 

 This is achieved by a little trick called " The Peter." This trick 

 merely consists in twitching the point of the rod very slightly forward, 

 and bringing it round in a very narrow oval, from right to left above 

 the head, when the thrash-down can be successfully effected. 



Besides this use of the cast. Switching is frequently resorted to 

 for the sake of relieving the monotony of promiscuous false casts, 

 when in any cast the line is so badly buried that it will not come up 

 without seriously trying the action of the rod. 



Those who have received no preliminary training may like to 

 know that the down-cast is made by thrashing the rod through as 

 already explained. The merest tyro would acquire a definite 

 knowledge of the process in five minutes' practice. 



THE WIND CAST. 



This cast is seldom or ever adopted except under very 

 exceptional circumstances. When those blasterous gentlemen, Libs, 

 Notus, and Auster are fighting out their battles on the surface of the 

 waves, the timid and prudent fisherman is better indoors. But if he 

 is determined to persist in the face of such difficulties, he will do well 

 to acquire a definite knowledge of the Wind cast. 



It consists of an upward pull of a most forcible character, of a 

 kind that hoists the line straight up above the head. The instant it 

 gets there the fisherman's business is, with a strong thrash-down, or 

 thrust, to send it straight forward again. As a matter of fact it 



