BAIT-CASTING FOR TROUT 125 



rod, multiplying reel and casting lure will prove 

 effective. 



A number of agnostics have questioned regard- 

 ing where the fun enters, and I have invariably 

 answered, "At the same door it enters in bass 

 casting." If there is sport in playing a two- 

 pound bass with short rod and reel, there is an 

 equal amount of fun in playing a trout in the 

 same manner. If you say that a trout is a fly- 

 taking fish, I will answer that the bass is also. 

 If you say that there is more sport in playing a 

 two-pound trout on a five-ounce fly-rod, I will 

 answer that there is more sport in playing a two- 

 pound bass on a fly-rod. The whole thing is 

 about as short as it is long. The sport enters, 

 as in all fishing, in playing the fish. There is 

 no sport in just killing fish; it is the battle, come 

 weal, come woe, that makes the game worth the 

 candle. 



On proper tackle more regarding that in a 

 moment a pound, and up, fish will keep the 

 angler busy far longer than he imagines. The 

 bass manifests speed when he darts away at the 

 end of a line; but he is as a freight-train to an 

 express when compared with a thoroughly fright- 

 ened two-pound speckled trout. If the water 

 fished is composed of rapids and quiet pools al- 



