position and if possible, wade, or walk 
backwards to assist in keeping the line 
to proper tension. In butting a trout 
the rod should be all the time at an 
angle of sixty degrees with the water 
level, and only at the critical moment 
when you net the exhausted fish is it 
wise to have it in a more perpendicular 
position. Reference is made in a sep- 
arate chapter as to the great advantage 
of equal handling of the rod with either 
hand. As with casting, so with playing 
a fish, the left hand is of the utmost 
service. 
In my own practice the reel is placed 
on the rod so that the handle is on 
the right side when the guides are 
turned downwards. Immediately after 
striking the rod is transferred from the 
right to the left hand which guides 
the fish and manipulates the tip—delic- 
ate or heavy, as the action of the fish 
warrants. Mr. Halford advises quite a 
different method by placing the reel on 
the rod so that its handle is on the 
left side when the guides are turned 
downwards. 
FTER the fish strikes he transfers 
the rod from right to left hand, 
and in the act of transferring it he 
turned over, so that the guides are up- 
-qwards and the reel handle in position 
for the right hand to control it. The 
effect of this change is to correct the 
tendency of rods—when much used, to 
get bowed and set in a curve with the 
guides on the concave side. Of course, 
by this method with the reel so placed 
on the rod, the turnover would have to 
be done often for winding the line in 
fly casting. 
In working your fish on its first mad 
tush up stream, play out plenty of line 
very free, standing perfectly still in a 
place where your feet have a good 
steady hold on the bottom. If the fish 
keeps going till there is danger of ex- 
hausting the line, or getting out of con- 
trol then follow it up stream. Don’t 
eurb it, or try to make it turn, unless it 
goes to a bad situation for playing and 
landing. Under all conditions it is best 
for the angler to be below the fish while 
playing or netting it. If the fish runs 
_ down stream, get below and keep below, 
dragging the fish down with the cur- 
rent, meanwhile shortening the line. In 
this way you are rapidly drowning the 
fish and getting it to strange places 
with less chance for it to hide and snag 
the line in its own particular haunts. 
HE most important thing is to very 
gradually get a hooked fish in con- 
trol of a short line and as much under 
the rodtip as possible and as near 
the surface as possible. I have always 
considered it best to let big fish do all 
the work, and I the play—lightly, gently 
curbing when required. The heaviest 
Strain should be used just after the 
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