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yards away. Unless you are fly-fishing, 
which is the very highest form of fishing, 
or spinning, it is useless to expect to 
follow the fish—the more you follow the 
more you alarm them. You want to sit 
down, keep quiet, and bring the fish to 
you. And to do that you must choose 
a suitable place, and use a bait suitable 
to the fish, to the time of year, and to 
the state of the water, or you will do no 
good. All of which has to be learned 
by long experience. 
But there are other rewards besides 
catching fish to be got from fishing. 
Sometimes nobody can catch them, how- 
ever experienced ; and then it is that you 
can enjoy the sights which the fisher- 
man sees so much more than any one 
else. For when you are sitting quietly 
and without moving, the riverside and 
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