20 The Angler's Secret 



waters heavily bordered by trees and 

 underbrush, and the banks are so near 

 each other and the overhead greenery so 

 dense that even a shorter rod than mine 

 would be quite practical. 



The reel is the lightest one I can find 

 in the shops of common-click rubber, 

 holding twenty-five yards of the smallest 

 enamel-silk line. 



This outfit, I confess, is rather too frail 

 for the average troutman who frequents 

 the waters of Canada and Maine, where 

 the trout run larger than those of the 

 mountain streams, but it serves my pur- 

 pose to perfection, and an application of 

 many years does not seem to affect my 

 views in the least. With this tiny rod 

 and its delicate reel and line I have taken 

 both large and small fish in both fresh 

 and salt water, and I have never had 

 occasion to wish that it were larger, 

 stronger, or more fancy in its material and 

 trimmings. 



So much for my idea of early trout 



