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and out, but in addition to this, it is a great edu- 

 cator. One may be a successful fisherman for 

 years without learning how to cast properly. 

 He may adopt a style that is all wrong when it 

 is just as easy to start right, as those do who 

 are coached by expert casters until they acquire 

 the knack of casting correctly. And after they 

 have practiced a bit, they step into the trout 

 stream with confidence in their rods and in 

 themselves. 



Tournament casting contests have been criti- 

 cized severely by men who have not gone in for 

 this sort of amusement on the ground that it is 

 not fishing, and that the rods, reels, and lines 

 used are not such as are commonly used in fish- 

 ing. This is mainly true; but still it is notice- 

 able that every veteran fisherman who takes up 

 casting becomes an enthusiast. A number of 

 these veterans have told me that they learned 

 more in one season on the platform than they 

 had acquired in all the years they had been 

 fishermen. And while I do not deny that many 

 of the tools used in casting are made for that 

 purpose, and are never taken to the stream, I 

 do claim that every tournament rod, reel, and 

 line can be used successfully in fishing in one 

 place or another in this great country of ours. 

 The tournament salmon rod is an excellent 



