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CHAPTER X. 



KEEJP TOUS FLY ON" THE WATEE. 



This is an old piece of advice, but for all that none the 

 less good, as all anglers will admit. 



''I have not sufficient patience for fishing," is a 

 statement frequently made ; but for the life of us we 

 cannot see that more patience is required in angling 

 than in any other sport. 



The word " patience " does not exist in the dictionary 

 of the sportsman ; he knows it not ; and the intervals 

 during which his efforts are not crowned with success 

 are not tedious, nor do they discourage him or make 

 him a bit the less keen — on the contrary, they stimulate 

 him to the exercise of greater care and attention. 



At one time or another every angler will have 

 experienced a really big day when it has been as easy 

 to basket fish as to take sardines out of a tin, but he 

 will with far more satisfaction recall the day when he 

 has against adverse circumstances landed a few fish by 

 sheer dint of perseverance and skill. 



Trout- and salmon-fishing in large rivers differ much 

 in one respect, inasmuch as the salmon-fisher, who knows 



