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the meditative mood, when fish do 

 not bite freely. The study of fish and 

 fishing, in this primitive form, is not 

 tiresome but rather of the restful 

 kind, to the enthusiastic beginner, 

 and it often happens that still fishing 

 continues to be the fayorite 'form of 

 angling through life. 



The brook and the rapid river are 

 not so favorable for still fishing as the 

 deeper, quiet lake, or the old mill 

 pond, where, as a rule, the country 

 boy makes his first venture in angling. 

 The angle-worm or common grub- 

 worm is most frequently used for bait, 

 and the rod is ordinarily of the sim- 

 plest kind, a reel being attached if the 

 fisher is at all ambitious to have the 

 excitement of testing his skill in play-- 

 ing his fish before landing it. In fact, 

 when a specimen is hooked perhaps 

 a large, open-mouthed catfish, or a 

 monster pickerel- the reel will be 

 found something more than orna- 

 mental ; it may be the means of saving 

 a finny prize that would have broken 

 either rod or line and escaping, to the 

 deep disappointment of the angler. 



