Some Fishing Pretenses 



it is not unusual to find him in very 

 low company, that this gentleman 

 among fish is a willing and shameless 

 cannibal, and that his toothsomeness, 

 not extraordinary at best, is probably 

 more dependent than that of most fish 

 upon his surroundings. 



While our knowledge of these 

 things does not exact from us an in- 

 dependent protest against constantly 

 repeated praise of the qualities of 

 trout and of fly-casting as a means of 

 taking them, it perhaps adds to the 

 spirit and emphasis of our dissent 

 when we are told that fly-casting for 

 trout is the only style of fishing worthy 

 of cultivation, and that no other meth- 

 od ought to be undertaken by a true 

 fisherman. This is one of the deplora- 

 ble fishing affectations and pretenses 



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