The Versatile Angler 51 



ized by other classes of theatregoers. 

 It is the same with fishing what is pis- 

 catorial joy to one rodster may be "fresh- 

 water fingerling catching " or "salt-water 

 shark baiting" to others. 



Many persons who fish in salt water are 

 fond of ridiculing the pursuit of the fresh- 

 water rodster, and many of the latter in 

 turn are not pleased to term ocean fishing 

 the choicest of sports. One will say that 

 he can see no pleasure in "sitting in a 

 filthy, tossing boat on the ocean, catching 

 poisonous stringarays and bemudded 

 crabs," while the other responds that he 

 "would just as soon fish in a bath-tub for 

 tin frogs as to wade down a half-dried-up 

 brook with butchers' boots up to his 

 waist, all for the sake of taking a lot of 

 little fish no larger than bait shrimps." 



But you must not think, reader, that 

 every angler is fond of only one sort of 

 fishing. There is the man, the versatile 

 angler, who loves every kind of sport 

 with rod and reel, who boats hundred- 



