AMERICAN TROUT FISHING 



as enthusiastic as ever. With what interest, year after year, he awaited 

 those telegrams from the Canadian rivers saying, •' The ice is out," and 

 with what delight he received them! He was like a boy going off for the 

 long vacation. It is thus with all of us. Once an angler, always a fisherman. 

 If we cannot have the best, we will take the least, and fish for minnows if 

 nothing better is to be had. I am afraid to say how many sorts of fish I 

 have taken on the artificial fly, and I have tried for others. 



A sea -fishing friend of mine heard of successful black bass fishing with 

 fiy at the south, and he fancied that salt-water fish might be killed in the 

 same way. Unfortunately he knew nothing of surface fishing and the water 

 on his coast was discoloured from a river. He attached two large files 

 and a heavy lead sinker to his line, and for two hours waited patiently for 

 a bite. Then he had a brilliant thought, which was at once acted upon. 

 He baited both files with shrimps and made a fresh cast from the reel. 

 After this combination was made sport was quite satisfactory, and he 

 boated a number of fine fish, but he afterwards told me that he did not 

 believe that artificial files made much difference. 



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