DRY-FLY FISHING. 
L 7 
EXERCISE III. 
HOW TO USE THE WHIPCORD. 
You may now venture to put on a gut cast of three 
yards length to your reel line, to which you may 
attach an artificial fly. For economy’s sake, let it be 
a coarse and common one, for you will be sure to flick 
several off before you get au fait. 
Be careful not to have too fine a cast (nor a line 
disproportionally thick), or you will not be able to 
get it out straight from the reel line. The reel line 
itself should taper gradually towards the end, and so 
should the gut cast also. The upper end of the cast 
should be of coarse gut gradually tapering, until, 
towards the fly, it should be exactly as fine as the 
gut on the fly itself. 
Now try and make your fly fall on the hat, or, 
better still into it. But the light gut at the end will 
make it more difficult for you to hit it therewith than 
with the end of your coarse reel line. You must be 
more gentle in the use of your force now, though 
relaxing none of the firmness of your stroke : and you 
must be more than ever careful to let the line go its 
full length behind you. Should you draw it back 
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