14 ALL ABOUT TROUT FISHING. 



PERFECTION UNATTAINABLE. 



Much has been uttered from time to 

 time as to the patience required to make 

 a good angler. How often you hear it 

 said, with perhaps a tinge of contempt, 

 "Oh, I have not the patience to become 

 a fisherman!" Well, I candidly admit I 

 have not, and never had, the patience to 

 go on persistently flogging the water when 

 fish are off the feed. I simply give up, 

 and generally fill in the spare time either 

 in collecting minnows or turning up the 

 stones by the waterside and examining 

 the different larvae hatching out, or per- 

 haps have a smoke until the rise comes 

 on again. But to my mind the charm of 

 fly-fishing is that, though perfection is 

 unattainable, yet progress, and with it a 

 fair amount of success, is within the reach 

 of all. 



