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astounded me. "What is the secret of such fly-making?" I 

 asked. The answer came, paraphrasing Demosthenes' famous 

 reply as to the secret of oratory: "Practice, practice, practice!" 

 So I say, in concluding this chapter. Do not be discouraged 

 by failure, by the tediousness and seeming difficulty of the 

 task, by the possibly clumsy look of the finished rod, or by 

 the lack of proportion. The secret, whole and entire, of 

 pleasurable rod-making in its facility and the beauty and 

 satisfaction of the result, is "practice, practice, practice." 



