Salmon-fishing — Casting the Fly. 



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baffling, the best of us are sometimes caught napping, to 

 our great mortification and disgust. 



I have alluded to this matter thus at length, lest the 

 incipient salmon-fisherman be deluded, as I was, by the 

 very simplicity of the real explanation into seeking a 

 hidden meaning which has no existence. 



There is, however, one difference in casting with a 

 salmon-rod, that he whose experience has been limited 

 to a single-handed rod must by no means overlook. 



Fig. 16. 



When casting with a single-handed rod, the practical 

 centre of motion lies within the hand which holds the rod. 

 When the upper part of the rod is thrown behind the 

 angler on the back-cast, that portion of the handle which 

 is below the hand moves toward the front, as shown in 

 Fig. 15. 



