Just a few more hints and I am done. When casting with a spinner or other heavy lure retrieve in the regular way but on the last pull do not bring it to the surface and make the back cast one continuous movement. Better for your rod and wrist if you will bring it to the top o’ the water and then " pick it off " the surface on the back cast. Even giving a little jerk with the line in your left hand as you start the back cast will help.
To make a spinner effective it must be retrieved against or partially against the flow of the stream, hence it should be cast down stream or diagonally across and down. When casting with a cork bodied fly it is customary to cast it up and across and strip in the slack with the left hand as it floats down to you. Does the splash of one of these bulky flies scare the fish? Sometimes but not often. The bass is not a shy fish and has a big bump of curiosity. He is something like the fighting forbears of the Irishman who was asked whom his ancestors sprung from. " They sprung from nobody," he said; " they sprung at 'em." Any large
