CHAPTER X 

 A MIXED STRING 

 TOURNAMENT CASTING 



TOURNAMENT casting bears about the same 

 relationship to fishing that trap shooting does 

 to hunting. It is practice in a way and be- 

 sides is a sport in itself. In the city of Chicago alone 

 there are about nine clubs with a total membership of 

 six hundred and the movement is growing through- 

 out the country. Nearly all the clubs in this coun- 

 try are affiliated with the National Association of 

 Scientific Angling Clubs or the National Amateur 

 Casting Association, which is good, inasmuch as it 

 standardizes the work and makes for better co-opera- 

 tion. 



It does not require a great deal of paraphernalia nor 

 a large amount of money to start a casting club and 

 it is intensely interesting and does much to interest 

 the community in scientific angling and, incidentally, 

 conservation. 



Personally, we are of the opinion that tournament 

 casting is too highly specialized to be of the greatest 

 value, but this no doubt will adjust itself as the 

 tendency is more and more toward practical work. 



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