THE ANGLER'S GUIDE 



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Of course, they are able, and willing, to take more fish 

 with a hand-line than we are able or willing to take with 

 our tackle, and they would be more able and no doubt 

 more willing, all conditions favorable, to take more with 

 a shot gun, still more with a set line, still more with a drag 

 net and still more with a stick of dynamite. 



The difference in the angler and the mere fisherman is 

 simple. The fisherman is willing to get his game anyway; 

 the angler only with appropriate tackle, correctly rigged 

 and humanely applied. 



Every now and again we read the views of a certain class 

 of men who contend that they can creel more brook trout 

 by live bait fishing than by fly-fishing, and often this con- 

 tention is exploited in the form of a wonderful discovery. 

 The claim is as old as it is foul, and if it is true that 

 the angle worm or minnow will catch more trout than the 

 artificial fly we are far from prepared to believe this 

 it is not an accomplishment any gentle person would be 

 proud to boast of, because the angler's proficiency is not 

 based upon and his pleasures are not derived from a 

 superior desire or competency for slaughter, but rather 

 upon the methods and paraphernalia employed, the spe- 

 cies encountered, the propitiousness of the day, and the 

 pursuit itself. 



It is quality with the angler and quantity with the 

 fisherman. 



Lately we read the story of a fisherman he is not an 

 angler who discovered that he didn't require "leaders, 

 fine snells, expensive flies and silk lines" to catch black- 



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