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even for a second is to give the sharp-eyed trout 

 time to discover the fraud. 



But as intimated a moment ago it is to the 

 larger rivers and lakes that we must turn for the 

 best angling with this sort of counterfeit present- 

 ment. A boat and boatman will be needed. 

 Few men can successfully manage a boat and 

 cast at the same time. Of course where the fish- 

 ing is deep and the boat can be anchored, it is a 

 different proposition. I have worked such 

 waters standing upon the top of a rock to which 

 I had been ferried. I have slipped at a crucial 

 moment and taken an involuntary cold bath too. 

 Most of the fishing must be done from a moving 

 boat, casting back under overhanging banks, be- 

 hind rocks, under snags, fishing surface or deep, 

 as occasion seems to demand. You will need to 

 exercise all the skill and fish knowledge of which 

 you are master in order to succeed at all. The 

 stake for which you are playing is the excep- 

 tional fish, the big one that usually gets away. 

 You will as a rule take larger fish than with other 

 lures at least that has been my experience 

 but you will not take many. Do not be sur- 

 prised if at first you fail to stir a fish to attack ; 

 persevere and some day the results will surprise 



