An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . le heed him that they play about his legs. Ihave often waded through a school collected in a long reach of fairly deep water,and then getting out on the bank and going back to the beginning, fished the samepool a second and third time with tolerable success. Wading also enables theangler to cover water that he could not otherwise reach, and it permits him tofish with a short line. It is a great mistake to fish with a line that is not undercomplete control. There is a great difference between
An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . le heed him that they play about his legs. Ihave often waded through a school collected in a long reach of fairly deep water,and then getting out on the bank and going back to the beginning, fished the samepool a second and third time with tolerable success. Wading also enables theangler to cover water that he could not otherwise reach, and it permits him tofish with a short line. It is a great mistake to fish with a line that is not undercomplete control. There is a great difference between stream fishing and pondfishing. I seldom attempt a long cast. The more line one lays on a still surfacethe shyer the fish become. A long line is like a long-range sharpshooters tele-scope rifle—intended to bring game where less effective weapons fail. A thirty-yard or even twenty-yard line, laid evenly out on the wings of a masterly cast, isan exquisite performance, but the accomplishment is seldom of practical use inangling. I remember once an amusing incident at Ridgewood, Long Island, where a. llnx. ROBERT B. ROOSKNELT, ANGLER AND AUTHOK.
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