DRY-FLY FISHING. 
*9 
EXERCISE IV. 
MIND YOUR EYE! 
One very important rule must be placed by itself. 
In drawing your line back or making the backward 
cast, do not attempt to jerk it back towards yourself, 
but draw it gently but firmly up from the ground as 
toward the zenith immediately over your head . 1 And 
in casting it forward do likewise. If you do this 
with gentle but firm force your line and fly will take 
care of themselves. 
In doing this, make the backward and forward 
cast describe the shape of a horse-shoe on your 
right. An expert will make it go back straight over 
his shoulder, but should you attempt this at first, 
you will most likely jerk your fly into your face, and 
— have to go to a surgeon with a hook in your lip or 
a fly in your ear ! or, if a lady, perhaps in your pretty 
eye ! 
1 I have not consulted a single book in writing my “ Guide,” 
but since writing I see that I am confirmed in this advice by 
Mr. G. J. Chatterton in his excellent little “ Essay on Fly- 
Fishing ’ 
