THE BANK OF VANTAGE loi 



the angler will want to consider what he has to do. 

 Does he wish to fish his own bank or the opposite 

 bank, or both ? Casting from the right bank, he 

 can cut under the wind and get his fly over to the 

 opposite bank far better than he could from the 

 left ; but is it worth doing ? If he can float his 

 fly for a reasonable distance without drag, it may 

 well be ; but if the current be so strong as to set 

 up an almost immediate drag, he may be practi- 

 cally confined to his own bank. So he would be 

 on the left side ; but whereas casting from the right 

 bank he would be apt to find the point of his gut 

 cast forced outwards and downwards by the wind, 

 and be constantly landing his line on the sedges or 

 bank, when casting from the other side his line 

 would fall upon the water, and the gut-point and 

 fly be driven inwards so as to search the water 

 quite close under the bank, just like a natural fly. 

 Moreover, it would not be driven so far inward as 

 it would be driven outward when cast from the 

 opposite side, for in dropping over the bank-edge 

 the fly and gut-point would enter, before the force 

 of the cast is spent, into that little cushion of 

 calm to be found just under the bank, and would 

 generally straighten out in a manner to command 

 admiration both from men and trout. 



Take next the case of an upstream wind slightly 

 across from the right bank to the left. Here it is 

 even more difficult for an angler on the right bank 

 to fish his own bank than for an angler on the left 



