Hints for Young Anglers 183 



tailor knows that "a stitch in time will 

 save nine," and the sportsman of experi- 

 ence well knows that an hour's easy rub- 

 bing and wrapping in season will save 

 days of real labor and expense later on. 

 Hurry out your rod in the spring, and fly 

 to your gun in the autumn, but do not 

 hurry either of them back to their idle 

 quarters at the end of their respective 

 seasons. Spend a little time in cleaning 

 and repairing them. This is the stitch 

 in time that saves nine, the ounce of 

 prevention that is better than the pound 

 of cure. 



Black Bass. Like the trout, the black 

 bass, as we all know, rises to the artificial 

 fly, which is generally somewhat different 

 from the style adopted for fontinalis. 

 The cast is allowed to sink a trifle, as a 

 rule , especially in deep, still waters, 

 but in small rivers, were the water runs 

 rapidly, I take the black bass precisely as 

 the brook trout is angled for, though with 

 flies not quite so small as those used for 



