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to tackle, and disproves a well-known saying re- 

 garding age being fitted for counsel and youth 

 for war. Let the angler remember what the late 

 President Cleveland said regarding the escape of 

 big fish; thus fortified, he will not feel so bad 

 when the square-tailed trout of the dead-water 

 wig-wags him "good-by." 



There are two classes of pools, depending upon 

 the character of the streams. Rapid streams, 

 with many falls and rock-strewn shoots, will offer 

 deep, broad, open pools at the foot of rapids, 

 sometimes at their head, as well as deep "swims" 

 where the stream bends sharply. Such pools are 

 open and easily fished notwithstanding their lack 

 of current of which more later. The second 

 class of pools are of the sort that try the angler's 

 soul, though they offer great possibilities. I re- 

 fer to the currentless stretches of deep water 

 sometimes found on the smaller streams, guarded 

 by an entanglement of almost impenetrable brush 

 and overhung by leaning trees. Naturally the 

 average fisherman, ninety-nine out of every hun- 

 dred, passes this class of pools as being too diffi- 

 cult of access, thereby leaving a soul-rending or 

 pleasurable experience, as the case may be, for 

 his more patient and venturesome brother of the 

 angle. The method of fishing the two classes 



