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Casting for jacks 



Your old salmon rod or the delicate favorite with which you 

 pursue brook trout may also be imported to the Keys, and when 

 you get them out, no one will laugh. People may think you are 

 piscatorially foolhardy but they will also assume you are among 

 that rare and dangerously living breed, the salt-water wet- or 

 dry-fly angler. A small tarpon on a trout rod, or a nice snapper- 

 but I think all fly fishermen get the idea. 



The fresh-water angler usually casts into likely places. But in 

 Florida's vast reaches of fish-thick "flats" the angler often sees 

 his fish and stalks it-casting to his quarry personally, as it lies, 

 swims, or feeds, plainly visible in the gin-clear water. Such fish- 

 ing is like hunting. 



Barracuda, for instance, are often seen before they are heard 

 from. More than once I have watched a casting wizard of a lake 

 or river region get buck fever as he tried to aim his plug at five 



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