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delivered with an overhand, slow " bowling " action and 

 with a long, light rod. No flick must be given or the worm 

 will be torn. 



Except for this sport, rather spoiled for me, I must own, 

 by what is perhaps a rather feminine objection to putting 

 the worms on the hooks, there is little attraction in bait 

 fishing for trout. 



I believe, too, that having brought you thus far, and 

 presuming you to have imbibed to the full this fount of 

 wisdom which I have made of my inkstand, I may now dismiss 

 you as a very tolerably finished angler, not only in those 

 higher branches which alone we have specifically discussed, 

 but also in all the rest, which really differ only incidentally, 

 and in the fact of being cruder and simpler, from these. 

 You have the keys to all the secret treasuries of the angler 

 in your ability to cast from the fly rod and the spinning rod. 

 These arts include all the rest. Or, should you occupy your 

 business in great water, and go sea fishing, whether it be off- 

 shore or in estuary work after the up-running bass, or in 

 pollock fishing or whatever it may be in the open sea, it matters 

 not, you are master of every situation so long as you can throw 

 both fly and bait. What lure to use, where to place it and 

 how to work it in the water — whether fast or slow, deep or 

 shallow — all this the master of each particular art may tell 

 you. He should have nothing to tell you about the general 

 principles of the art, which are wholly comprised in what 

 you have learnt already. 



