Rod and gun . - had lostmost of its charm and I remained indreamland till the sun, in all his splendor,?rose high in the eastern Three Fine Maskinonge. Caught in Stursejii in LessThan Half an Hour. .\s 1 arose and dressed I knew full wellthat hours before some of the earlybirds had taken early worms, but Icomforted myself w^ith the homely prov-erb that there are as good fish in thesea as ever were caught. After breakfast I strolled out to see iwhat early birds were returning and to Ilearn something of the nature of theirsuccess. I soon saw one of the stalwarts,a man of many years e
Rod and gun . - had lostmost of its charm and I remained indreamland till the sun, in all his splendor,?rose high in the eastern Three Fine Maskinonge. Caught in Stursejii in LessThan Half an Hour. .\s 1 arose and dressed I knew full wellthat hours before some of the earlybirds had taken early worms, but Icomforted myself w^ith the homely prov-erb that there are as good fish in thesea as ever were caught. After breakfast I strolled out to see iwhat early birds were returning and to Ilearn something of the nature of theirsuccess. I soon saw one of the stalwarts,a man of many years experience, ad-vance towards me. He had no trophies,nothing but lines and dangling baits withwhich he had sallied forth in the greydawn and was returning with measuredstep. Hello, Jim, where are your fish?I asked as he came near, and he answer-ed: Ive no fish; theyll be yours wlienyou catch them. Just so, I observed,but wasnt the fishing good this morn-ing? Why, it was all fishing! he ex-claimed. I persisted in questioning andcontinued, How many bites did youget? Any amount of bites, he remarkedin that casual wa}- which tells one
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