1 6 The Angler's Secret 



He is patient while plying the lure and 

 he is content at the end of his recreative 

 days and all through the close season, 

 but so soon as the mellow spring breezes 

 blow and the song birds return from the 

 South, the spirit of old Izaak creeps into 

 his heart and head and leads him into a 

 state of gentle impatience that is only 

 satisfied by the preparation that develops 

 the realization in angling, and then Peter 

 goes a-fishing with what success, these 

 early days, reader, I '11 try to tell you. 



One of the charms in fishing, as some 

 author has said, is the endless chain of 

 argument and speculation it affords, and, 

 this being true, my few words must not 

 be accepted as absolute knowledge so far 

 as all rodmen are concerned. We anglers 

 agree and disagree, but our individual 

 arguments always apply to some certain 

 rules, conditions, and natures, and thus 

 our disagreements are of calm and quiet 

 duration. 



My favorite trouting time is during the 



