Favorite Fish and Fishing 



come pleasures rendered brighter by the 

 rosy tint of anticipation. 



The Love of With the first blossoms of spring the 



thoughts of many men, both old and young, 

 turn lightly to love the love of angling. 

 And as the leaves unfold, and the birds 

 begin their wooing, and the streams become 

 clear, the premonitory symptoms of the 

 affection are manifested in a rummaging of 

 drawers and lockers for fly-books and tackle 

 boxes, and the critical examination of rods 

 and reels, and in the testing of lines and 

 leaders. These preliminaries are the inev- 

 itable harbingers of the advent of the 

 angling season, when black bass are leaping 

 gayly from the waters after their enforced 

 hibernation in the gloom and seclusion of 

 the deep pools. 



And when the encroachment of age or 

 rheumatism forbids wading the stream, one 

 can still sit in a boat on a quiet lake and 

 enjoy to the full the delight and fascination 

 of " bass fishing." What farmer's boy in 

 the Middle West does not look forward to 

 a Saturday when the ground is too wet to 

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