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trout. The more inaccessible a pool, the greater 

 will be your reward providing you have patience. 

 I have opened a way to many a pool just for the 

 joy of the first half -hour's fishing and it is worth 

 all effort. 



Reeling for trout is bait-fishing up to date. 

 The baited hook is allowed to travel down with 

 the current, around bends, under low-hanging 

 brush anywhere the current makes its way the 

 baited hook goes, a wriggling invitation to hungry 

 trout. The fisherman will be surprised to find 

 that two hundred feet of line will pay out with 

 ease. If a fish is hooked away downstream, pa- 

 tience and slow reeling will lead it up through 

 the tortuous course to the waiting net. To reel 

 rapidly is to bring the fish to the surface, where 

 it will leap over submerged brush and escape. 

 To reel a pound trout two hundred feet against 

 the current requires not a little skill, the angler 

 who has never successfully accomplished the 

 trick has an experience in store. Reeling may 

 be practised anywhere, on an open meadow 

 stream when the fish are exceedingly shy, as well 

 as in wood-streams where fly-fishing is out of the 

 question. To my skill in this variety of trout 

 fishing I attribute my large catches when other 

 and better fishermen have failed. It goes with- 



