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spot of water could be thoroughly searched, and what 

 was more important still there was no necessity to 

 hurry the bait through the water. I can quite under- 

 stand a man who has fished in this manner for any 

 length of time being unwilling to give up the skittering 

 style of fishing and take up with the practice of bait- 

 casting. 



The art of bait-casting is becoming better known and 

 appreciated every year. Eight years ago the number of 



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bait-casters that could be seen on the lakes were few, 

 but now one cannot help noticing that the bait-casters 

 form a large majority of those who leave each Satur- 

 day on the Wisconsin Central for the lakes of Northern 

 Illinois. There are two things required in catching fish. 

 First, to know where to look for them, and then to 

 place the bait before the fishes without letting them sus- 

 pect that you are at the other end of the line ; and there 

 is no method which accomplishes the latter so well as 

 the bait-casting rod. 



