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thorough sportsman will endorse that 

 bait fishing, although an art of intricacy 

 and difficulty, is altogether inferior to 

 the science of fly fishing." ROBERT B. 

 ROOSEVELT. 



"Sometimes a body may keep threshin' 

 the water for a week without seein' a 

 snout and sometimes a body hyucks a 

 fish at the very first throw." CHRISTO- 

 PHER NORTH. 



" Salmon fishing is confessedly the 

 highest department in the school of an- 

 gling." GEORGE DAWSON. 



"Eh, man! what a conceit it is when 

 ye reach a fine run on a warm spring 

 mornin', th' wuds hatchin' wi' birds, 

 an' dauds o' licht noos an' thans glintin' 

 on the water; an' the water itsel' in trim 

 order, a wee doon, after a nicht's spate, 

 an' wi' a drap o' porter in 't, an' rowin' 

 an* bubblin' ower the big stanes, curlin' 

 into the linn an' oot o't; an' you up toe 

 the henches in a dark neuk whaur the fish 



