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being too wedded to one method to the exclusion of the others. 

 Judgment and common sense will assist materially in filling the 

 angler's basket. Patience, also, is a very necessary virtue in pike- 

 fishing, and it must be a bad day indeed, and a very ill-stocked 

 water, which will not afford a brace of fish to the man who 

 fishes carefully and patiently from morn to eve. At the same 

 time, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the most 

 tempting baits, and the finest tackle London can produce, will 

 avail nothing when the fish are " not in the humour." 



