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FOREST AND STREAM 
May, 1920 
“ Qavvy ” Cravath, manager of the 
Philadelphia Nationals, fishing for 
tuna fish off thecoast of Southern Cal- 
ifornia with his Caille 5-Speed Motor 
“Gavvy” Cravath Says It's 
Better Than We Represent 
Gavvy*’ is some baseball player and lie’s also son e fisher* 
man. When he s not managing the Phillies he’s fishing 
tuna fish off the coast of Southern California with his 
Recently he wrote us— Your CAI LLE Five-Speed Rowboat 
Motor is even better than you represent. Used the motor 
the past fall and winter driving a lb-foot dory over the 
fishing grounds of Southern California. The little Put- 
Putter* spoke for itself under all the trying conditions.” 
Liberty Drive 
Motor only • 
What it did for “Gavvy” it will do for you. The CAILLE Five- 
Speed Motor is the highest developed motor of its kind in the 
world. Has five speed adjustments — two forward, two backward 
and a neutral. Starts with a starting device— no cranking. Has 
water-cooled exhaust. Magneto built into the flywheel. So sim- 
ple. children run it — so reliable, life savers depend on it. Send 
for details and name of nearest distributor. The CAILLE 
Liberty Drive 
ROWBOAT MOTOR 
does not possess all the features of the Five-Speed Motor 
but it's just as reliable and it’s lower priced. It will take 
you anywhere a boat will float, — through weeds or shallows 
— over rivers and lakes. Send for catalog describing 
both motors. Get all the facts. A postal brings it. 
The Caille Perfection Motor Co. 
205 Caille Building Detroit, Mich. 
Also builders of Inboard Motors from 2 K to 30 H. P. 
^ DON! BREAKS' 
Tough 
Strong 
Durable 
Invisible in Water 
“ — I am using a No. 4-6-ft. 
Joe Welsh Leader 4 years 
and yesterday landed a 6- 
lb. Rainbow Trout. . . 
Your leader is worth 10 
times the price I paid for it.” 
Live Dealers Sell Them Everywhere. 
If Yours Can’t Supply You, Send 
25c for 3-ft. Sample 
JOE WELSH 
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 
Exclusive Agent 
United States and Canada 
D ARROW’S STEEL BOATS 
Seventeen styles, eighty sizes, up to twenty-four 
feet in length, including light, medium and heavy 
duty Motorboats, Outboard Motor Specials, Row- 
boats, Duckboats, Canoes and our WORLD 
FAMOUS SECTIONAL BOATS. Write for Cat- 
alogue and prices. 
F. H. DARROW STEEL BOAT CO., 
611 Erie Street ALBION, MICH. 
Al.Ibss Pork Rind Minnowsi 
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Al. R>ss 
Oriental Wiqqler $125 g 
Little Eqypt Wiqqler 75V™ 
ikidder 75*, PorkRind Strips 35*jar. ' 
1 1712-1736 (oluiribus Pd.ffeveland 
THE SUBTLE ART OF 
FLY-CASTING 
'CONTINUED FROM PAGE 245 ) 
O BSTACLES of every sort and de- 
scription are constantly encount- 
ered during a day’s fishing. One 
that is sure to present itself is the old 
farm bridge. This is usually a crudely 
constructed affair of rough planks or 
poles thrown over a couple of string 
pieces that rest on rough piers of creek 
stone. These old piers are full of crevices 
which form excellent lurking places for 
trout. An old farm bridge that has with- 
stood the successive spring freshets of a 
decade is a marvel. The majority have 
succumbed to the inevitable two or three 
times, and as a direct result a broken 
stringer or plank has become lodged in 
the bottom gravel, around which an ac- 
cumulation of drift has collected during 
the high water of several successive 
years. They are exceedingly difficult to 
fish but the patient angler is not infre- 
quently richly rewarded for his pains. 
As a rule this very necessary adjunct 
of the farm is not easily approached be- 
cause there is no surrounding cover. It 
must be fished from the open so that the 
flies will fall just inside the shadows. 
In order to do this successfully the angler 
has to employ the horizontal cast. 
In this cast the flies travel horizontally, 
in a parallel line with and just above the 
water. For this reason it is a hard cast 
to learn and also because of the fact that 
the line must travel with considerable 
speed in order to overcome the forces of 
gravity and the difficulty of making the 
flies drop on the water ahead of the line. 
If the wind happens to be blowing, ad- 
vantage can be taken of it to make a 
short cast, but when it comes to a long 
one the caster must depend upon his own 
skill. 
Ability to make the horizontal cast 
correctly is the supreme test of a fly- 
casters dexterity. The secret lies in a 
quick, even motion that gives the line 
just sufficient momentum to maintain its 
position without pitching downward. To 
make it, hold the rod directly in front of 
you and parallel with the water. Bring* 
the forearm at a right angle with the 
body. In the back cast also keep the rod 
nearly parallel with the water, carrying* 
the line straight back, so as to swing it a 
bit high, for if too low it will foul the 
cast. The instant the drag of the line 
is felt return the rod with a swift motion 
giving it a snappy finish. The arc of the 
rod should be about the same as in the 
direct cast and if properly made the line 
will turn with a short loop on the back 
cast, returning within ten or twelve 
inches of the rod-tip, the flies following 
nearly a level course in their passage 
through the air, eighteen inches or two 
feet from the surface. A left to right 
turn of the wrist elevates the rod-tip 
about two feet, snaps the leader down and 
drops the flies onto the water where 
wanted. It requires a lot of practice to 
master the horizontal cast, but then,, 
practice is the price of perfection, and 
in the course of a day’s fishing the fly- 
caster will find innumerable opportunities j 
to employ it effectively. 
