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therefore suffice. The most distinguished of the whole family is 

 the out and out angler, who makes and fits his own tackle, and 

 knows how to fish in every branch of the art, and has at one time 

 or other taken every species of fish that inhabits the fresh water, 

 from a tittlebat to a salmon. Next comes the persevering angler, 

 who whatever he undertakes he spares no pains to accomplish : 

 toiling away with most persevering assiduity from day light to 

 sun set, and whose labours generally are, as they ought to be, 

 crowned with success. Then the patient angler, who generally 

 uses a float, the watching of which seems to give him continued 

 delight : he usually continues all dny near the same place, still 

 anxiously awaiting the long vainly hoped-for bite; is highly de- 

 lighted at the capture of a roach or gudgeon, and returns home 

 not wholly unsatisfied, though a glorious nibble is the only reward 

 of his day's labour, and very probably lies awake half the night 

 pondering over in his mind what manner of fish the nibbler might 

 have been. The exquisite angler I have already said quite enough 

 about; and after him may next be ranked the neat and precise 

 angler, who keeps all his fishing tackle, which he is extremely 

 proud of exhibiting, in the nicest possible order ; but rarely if ever 

 makes the slightest use of it himself, and yet was never guilty of 

 lending the most trivial portion of it in the whole course of his 

 existence. His opposite is the good natured angler, who although 

 of too indolent a disposition to go out very often himself, or to 

 follow up the pursuit when he does, still feels a considerable share 

 of interest in the art, and is very willing at all times to accommo- 

 date any of his acquaintance with the loan of any portion of his 

 tackle they may require ; the consequence of which is, that when he 

 goes fishing himself, he is obliged to Content himself with a crippled 

 rod with half the rings wanting, a knotted line very much cur- 

 tailed in length since he last saw it; a reel that will not travel, an 

 almost empty fly book, and fishing pannier minus a strap or at 

 any rate with a disabled buckle. 



Then there is the pot-hunting angler, a sort of soi disant pro- 

 fessor, or ephemeral nondescript ; one who only makes his appear- 

 ance by the river side for a few days in the month of June, when 

 the green drake is up strong, at which time you may recognise 

 him armed with a long cane rod near a piece of preserved water, 

 with cne or two attendants, attentively watching the stream to 

 detect when a trout rises, who then direct this sportsman to the 



