STILL FISHING 



FT is reasonable to believe and prob- 

 * ably safe to assert that the very 

 earliest form of angling was still fish- 

 ing. It is not, of course, one of the 

 scientific methods of fishing, but it 

 puts to the test that ever essential 

 quality, patience, and the other trait 

 so often mentioned in commenting on 

 what is known as the contemplative 

 art, for there is self-truth in good old 

 Izaak Walton's lines referring, 

 doubtless, to the ancient and pre- 

 sumably everlasting branch of an- 

 gling, still fishing 



"One hand alone my work can do, 

 So I can fish and study too." 



The first efforts of the youthful an- 

 gler are naturally in the line of still 

 fishing. The bob and sinker are re- 

 garded as important parts of the out- 

 fit, if fishing in deep water, but in the 

 swift-running brook the bob is not re- 

 quired, and the sinker x if used, should 

 be small. In either case there will 

 be good reason for patience and for 



