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sionally having to fish streams where if he cannot make an 
underhand cast he may as well go home. 
Of all the various undercasts, the one as practised on the 
Spey is the most pleasant and satisfactory to make, and, as far 
as I can judge, a longer line can be got out with it than with 
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any other. It is generally believed this cast can only be 
accomplished when wading, but if anyone knows how to do it, 
it can be done with quite as great ease and to as great perfec- 
tion, when standing on the bank ; but in the latter case it 
requires a sharp stream to be running evenly close into the 
bank which is being fished from. Until very recently I found 
