DRY-FLY FISHING. 
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EXERCISE VIII. 
HOW TO CAST UP-STREAM. 
The next thing will be to practise casting up-stream, 
so as to allow your dry fly to float down it with the 
current in a straight line for some yards without 
sinking, and without any check from your line, just 
as a living fly would do, and does perhaps before 
your eyes. 
To do this, you must cast as before, and see that 
your fly falls on the water before any of your reel 
line ; which will not be the case if you lower your 
rod too much in your cast, nor unless you gently 
raise it immediately after the fly falls. 
Keep gently raising your rod until the fly has 
floated down a few yards, and, long before it has 
reached you, pick it gently off the water and dry the 
fly again as before. Unless you thus raise your rod, 
it is obvious that your line will become loose and 
baggy, so that if a fish were to seize your fly, you 
could not strike him, and the fish would almost 
certainly get away. 
In casting over a rising fish you must drop your 
fly at least a yard above or beyond him, and in a 
