. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . Blazes! you dont say % Whats he doing there?Hes not within a hundred feet of my line. Itsyour fish, sir. The swift current makes your linebend like the new moon. And this was the fact;but the illusion was so perfect that it requiredseveral like experiences to convince him that hisIndian gaffer was not fooling him upon thatoccasion. After an hours struggle, and with a skill andjudgment which excited the admiration of all whowitnessed the contest, the fish was killed and cap-tured. When he kicked the beam at the twentyeight pound no
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . Blazes! you dont say % Whats he doing there?Hes not within a hundred feet of my line. Itsyour fish, sir. The swift current makes your linebend like the new moon. And this was the fact;but the illusion was so perfect that it requiredseveral like experiences to convince him that hisIndian gaffer was not fooling him upon thatoccasion. After an hours struggle, and with a skill andjudgment which excited the admiration of all whowitnessed the contest, the fish was killed and cap-tured. When he kicked the beam at the twentyeight pound notch, the Judge was a proud and ahappy man. There are many things he will for-get as old Time weaves silver threads amid hisauburn locks, but he will never forget his astonish-ment when that fish showed himself one hundredfeet from the point where he was intently watch-ing him. The next day Dtjn was awarded the Judges pooland had his usual luck — making a larger scorethan any of us, and breaking more rods; notbecause he had less general skill, but because he. PLEASUKES OF ANGLING. 123 could not receive a challenge from a fish withoutreturning an impetuous strike on the may strike too soon as well as too angling, as in everything else, there is a happymean—just the right mode and moment tostrike your fish without imperilling your tacklingor tearing the hook from his mouth. To invari-ably compass this right moment requires steadiernerve, greater forbearance and a nicer appreciationof time and opportunity than falls to the lot ofmost anglers. A few have the gift; but it onlycomes to old trout fishers after much practice andmany discomfitures. Our friend had been casting half an hour at agay gambolier whose special vocation seemed tobe to leap at nothing and keep just a tails breadthfrom the lure sent to him. His disportings provedhis agility but were provokingly tantalizing; andDun was just ready to give him up as a hopelesscase, when he made a dash for the
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