CHAPTER V 



SHORE CASTING 



I am enamoured of bass angling, all angling. 

 Sometimes I find myself thinking that boat casting is 

 the most enjoyable, that is when I am casting from 

 a boat; again I find myself as firmly believing that 

 wading is the most attractive method, that is, of 

 course, when I am splashing about in hip-boots; and 

 again there are moments when I fondly insist that 

 trolling is far and away the contemplative angler's 

 recreation, needless to add that is when I am stealing 

 about the lake in the shouding mists of early dawn, 

 my whirling spoon trailing far behind the canoe. 

 Actually, there is no best, or most enjoyable method, 

 all are good; to the right sort of an individual, soul- 

 ravishing. No, that is not hyperbole. The fact of 

 the matter is, there are times when one method is the 

 successful method, and still other times when some- 

 thing radically different is the one that succeeds. By 

 the same token, waters differ, and neither is the 

 angler always in the same mood, for the disciple of 

 Izaak Walton is a moody individual, as moody as 

 the black bass. To me the great attractivity of cast- 

 ing is its many methods, a method for any water, or 



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