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sport is entertaining and instructive. 

 Charles Bradford. 



USE SUITABLE TACKLE. The qual- 

 ity of gameness in a fish is best deter- 

 mined by the character of the tackle 

 used. A brook trout on a striped 

 bass rod, or a black bass on a tarpon 

 rod, could not, in either case, exhibit 

 its characteristic gameness, or afford 

 any sport to the angler. Excellent 

 sport with small fishes, however, is 

 now rendered possible owing to the 

 advent of the very light trout rod. It 

 should not be considered beneath the 

 dignity of an angler to cast the fly for 

 a rock bass, a blue gill, or a croppie, 

 with a three-ounce rod. Certainly it 

 is just as sportsmanlike as to fish for 

 six-inch brook trout in a meadow 

 brook or a mountain rill. James A. 

 Hemshall. 



THE ANGLING WORLD. Angling 

 takes us from the confusion . . . 

 of the big cities and places us in close 

 contact with one of the most im- 

 portant divisions of human labor 

 the cultivation of the soil, which is 



