Notes and Quertes 
DON’T neglect to dry your lines. 
DON'T try to land your fish too soon. 
DON'T put pickerel in trout streams. 
DON’T let your fish run under the boat. 
DON’T snap off your bait when you cast. 
DON’T give slack line to a fighting fish. 
DON’T stamp in the bottom of the boat. 
DON’T let your shadow fall on the brook. 
DON’T keep too many lines going at once. 
DON’T drop a fish into your creel tail first. 
DON’T think that it is all fishing to catch fish. 
DON’T fail to clean fish which are to be kept. 
DON’T store your rods next to a steam pipe. 
DON'T buy patent ‘‘catch-alls”’; they never 
work. 
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DON’T leave oars sticking over the sides of 
the boat. 
DON’T yell ‘I've got one’ until you've 
landed him. 
DON’T try to lift a big fish into the boat by 
the line. 
DON’T leave your rod tips in the bottom of 
the boat. 
DON’T anchor within casting distance of an- 
other boat. 
DON’T despise a faint nibble ; it may be your 
biggest fish. 
DON’T pick out the best pools; give your 
friend a chance. 
DON’T race along the bank when a friend 1s 
following you. 

