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THE TROUT. 
your turn, which also will be with and against you on the 
same side, several times in an hour, as the river winds in its 
course, and you will be forced to angle up and down by 
turns accordingly, but are to endeavor, as much as you can, 
to have the wind evermore on your back. And always bo 
sure to stand as far off the bank as the length will give you 
leave, when you throw on the contrary side; though when 
the wind will not permit you so to do, and that you are con- 
strained to angle on the same side whereon you stand, you 
must then stand on the very brink of the river, and cast your 
fly at the utmost length of your rod and line, up or down the 
river, as the gale serves.” 
Management of the Line, when Fishing cither with one 
Fly , or two or more Flics ■ The following minute and easy 
method of the management of the line, and throwing the fly, 
from Taylor’s “ Art of Angling,” will be found to be excel- 
lent advice to the young beginner. 
“ When you have fixed your rod properly, with your 
winch thereon, and brought your line from it through the 
rings of your rod, loop on to it by the strongest end your foot 
length,* which should be about three yards and a half long, 
made of good strong silk-worm gut, well tied, and the knots 
neatly whipped, running (very little) finer towards the bot* 
tom end, at which place there must be a neatly whipped loop; 
then take your end fly, or stretcher, which should be made 
of one or two lengths of good level gut, full as fine, or a little 
finer, than the bottom link of your foot length, tied and 
whipped neatly together, and looped nicely at the end; loop 
this to the end of your gut length ; and then, your drop fly- 
just above a knot, where whipped, about a yard from tho 
end fly, to hang from the line not more than two or three 
Called in this country a loader, os described on page 32. 
