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FLY-FISHING. 



Fishing with the artificial fly deserves to 

 be considered a much more pleasing sport 

 than any kind of bottom fishing, and as it 

 requires much more neatness and skill in 

 all its parts, to excell in it must assuredly 

 be more gratifying. 



It requires less preparation, and presents 

 infinitely more variety. The bottom fisher 

 must make ready his worms and his baits, 

 and visit his " ground " the night before to 

 prepare his intended victims for his recep- 

 tion. But the fly-fisher, rod in hand, and 

 his book of flies in his pocket, free from all 

 encumbrance, roams for miles along the 

 banks of the stream, surveying nature in all 

 her beauties, " listing to the melody of 

 waters," and enjoying the while a health- 

 giving and gentle exercise. 



Fly-fishing, to be successful, requires 

 great neatness ; the learner should if pos- 

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