. Dry-fly fishing in theory and practice . loweringthe hand, or even walking along the bank asthe fly floats down on the surface. Walkingdown over a rising fish is, however, only tobe adopted as a dejmier 7^essort, as it toofrequently results in setting it down. Sometimes an extra strong down-streamwind will be blowing with almost hurricaneforce, rendering it well-nigh impossible tocast up against the wind, even with theunder-handed cast or downward cut. Occa-sionally, too, there are places where, owingto natural obstructions, such as trees, bushes,or a jutting promontory just in the rangeof t
. Dry-fly fishing in theory and practice . loweringthe hand, or even walking along the bank asthe fly floats down on the surface. Walkingdown over a rising fish is, however, only tobe adopted as a dejmier 7^essort, as it toofrequently results in setting it down. Sometimes an extra strong down-streamwind will be blowing with almost hurricaneforce, rendering it well-nigh impossible tocast up against the wind, even with theunder-handed cast or downward cut. Occa-sionally, too, there are places where, owingto natural obstructions, such as trees, bushes,or a jutting promontory just in the rangeof the line behind the anoler, there is noalternative but to drift or throw directlydown-stream to a fish risinof under the fisher-mans own bank, or to pass it by such conditions, and such conditionsonly, is it advisable to drift to a feeding troutor grayling; although in gin-clear water,such as the Hampshire chalk-streams, a smallmodicum of success must at the best be antici-pated ; and no dry-fly fisherman, even the most f^. HOW TO CAST 95 experienced, need be astonished at findinghimself setting down fish after fish, and per-haps not succeeding in rising a single oneduring the whole day. In considering how to drift the floating fly the fish, it must be remembered that in this,as in any other style of casting, the dry flyshould, as near as possible, imitate the posi-tion and motion of the natural insect carrieddown by the action of the current. Thecast should be made with the lenQth of linecorrectly judged, and the fly accurately placed,so that it shall float exactly over the fishsnose and travel well down below it. Inthe act of casting the hand should be wellextended, so as to be able to draw it as the line is fully extended over thewater and at a level of quite two yards aboveit, the hand holdinof the rod must be carriedsome distance back so as to check the castand place the artificial—quite dry, cocked,and floating—well in front of th
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