128 FISHING WITH THE FLY. 



amidst the foliage of the forest, the greater the success. 

 A word, brother angler, and I have done. Learn to 

 cast a fly, and you will never go back to bait fishing 

 from choice. Get good flies, and you won't regret the 

 extra money they cost you ; don't buy cheap imitations 

 or trade made flies — " they are frauds." 



Don't buy a pole big enough for the staff of a Philis- 

 tine Goliath ; to fish for trout, buy a fine rod, take care 

 of it, learn to use it thoroughly. Never buy a cheap 

 rod ; a rod fit for trouting must be as fine as it is pos- 

 sible to make them, and it should not make a shadow 

 on the water. Cheap rods are like cheap guns, scham- 

 dahms ! Good trout rods cost a good deal of time and 

 labor ; cheap rods are turned out in a rapid-running 

 lathe. They are a delusion. Get the best materials 

 of everything you need, and buy of a good maker. 

 Never be tempted to buy "cheap flies because they are 

 bargains " — cheap rods because some one is selling out ; 

 "want to get out of the business, no money in it." 

 Remember 3-011 are the party who will be sold. Cheap 

 things for trouting are a "fraud, a delusion, and a 

 snare." 



Almost every angler has been bitten, but the prevail- 

 ing opinion is : buy the best tackle your pocket-book 

 can afford and take care of it. And my word for it, 

 as an angler who learned to cast a line for pickerel at 

 ten years old, you will love the sport and think it the 

 best way to spend a summer's vacation of any amuse- 

 ment under the sun. 



