62 The Angler's Secret 



heavy but finely made accoutrement 

 which, modified a trifle, is also the tackle 

 of the gallant surfman who fights the 

 drumfish and big striped bass; the weak- 

 .fish and medium striped bass fisherman 

 of the East; and the redfish, green-bass, 

 croaker and squeteague taker of the South, 

 with their medium outfits so easily con- 

 verted into practical implements for the 

 chivalric lake and river angler who fondly 

 follows the play at lake trout, black bass, 

 walleye, maskinonge, pike, and pickerel; 

 the salmon fisher with the most costly 

 of all paraphernalia ; the mountain brook- 

 trout fisherman with his tiny four-ounce 

 rod and silk thread-like line, and we even 

 approve of the pond boy with his perch 

 and sunfish pole and homely worm hook, 

 but the no-tackle-at-all scoffer, who will 

 fish without catching, and abuse the 

 tackle-men who do catch, we have only 

 contempt for him. 



