. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . f the same master. CHAPTER XVIII. TROUT FISHING DO FISH HEAR ? A MERRY MAKING. I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed tolook upon one another next morning.—[Sir Izaak Walton. i|||. ALMOJST fishing is confessedly thehighest department in the schoolof angling. With very rare ex-ceptions, the tact and skill neces-sary for its successful practice isonly acquired by long experiencein the minor branches of the art,first, in early youth, with bait, forchub, perch and sunfish; next, inH*^*§=~- the transition state, with troll,
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . f the same master. CHAPTER XVIII. TROUT FISHING DO FISH HEAR ? A MERRY MAKING. I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed tolook upon one another next morning.—[Sir Izaak Walton. i|||. ALMOJST fishing is confessedly thehighest department in the schoolof angling. With very rare ex-ceptions, the tact and skill neces-sary for its successful practice isonly acquired by long experiencein the minor branches of the art,first, in early youth, with bait, forchub, perch and sunfish; next, inH*^*§=~- the transition state, with troll, for bass, pickerel and muscalonge; and lastly, whenthe mind takes in the exciting realities and poeticpossibilities of the art, with fly, in streamlet, riverand lake. It is not until after all is attained thatis attainable in trout waters that salmon are sighedfor, and only very few who thus sigh are ever ableto have their longings gratified. But those whoseexperience has been limited to bait or troll seldomaspire to anything beyond the pleasant amusement. 136 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. which these primitive modes of angling affordthem. Having never cast a fly they have no con-ception of the superiority of that mode of anglingover all others, and so soon weary of a pastimewhich, from its sameness and tameness, fails toattract when something more than mere muscularexercise or physical excitement is required to holdits votaries. A gray-haired bait-fisher is very rare,while the passion for fly-casting, whether for troutor salmon, grows by what it feeds upon, and con-tinues a source of the highest pleasure even afterthe grasshopper becomes a burden. But this is notstrange; for there is as much difference betweenthese extremes of the art as there is between theharsh music of a hurdy-gurdy and the divine har-mony of the violin. There is, however, such a similarity betweentrout and salmon fishing that pleasure can be foundin either by the expert in both. And as troutusually abound in s
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