1.   A minute later, I noticed my rod tip slap sharply as another Mackinaw took the dace.

2.   Allow the fish to pull the rod tip down parallel to the water.

3.   I cast diagonally upstream and let the nymph drift with my rod tip down, staring intently at the line.

4.   I made the cast and caused the popper to gurgle in just the right fashion when I flicked the rod tip.

5.   I saw the dry fly disappear beneath the surface, but held my rod tip still.

6.   I countered by moving my rod tip.

7.   If the rod tip is up, the trout will land to a tight line and it might break off.

8.   I watched as he reeled slowly and carefully, crawling and hopping his rig along the bottom, eyes fixed on the rod tip.

9.   Instinctively, I stabbed the rod tip up and brought in the fish.

10.   It would take a number of jabs with a rod tip to retrieve the soaking chapeau.