126 THe Determined Angler 



True; Walton says the Angler's anticipation of fishing 

 is as great a joy as the realization of it. 



Angling Ailment. "We never get over the fishing 

 fever; it is a delightful disease, and, thank the Lord, 

 there is no cure. " Ira W. Moore. 



Angling and Nature. " Association with men of 

 the world narrows the heart; communion with nature 

 expands it. " Jean Paul Richter. 



Angling and Mathematics. "Angling may be said 

 to be so much like the Mathematics, that it can ne'er 

 be fully learnt; at least not so fully, but that there will 

 still be more new experiments left for the tryal of 

 other men that succeed us." Izaak Walton, The 

 Compleat Angler, 1653. 



Tendency of Angling. "I am now over 76 [years 

 in age] and owe my life to fishing, and I find the 

 tendency of fishing is to make one careful, artful, 

 patient, and practical/' "Watcher." 



Angling a Science. "Angling is a science, not 

 merely a pastime. It will broaden you and start your 

 boy in a manly sport that will draw him to the country 

 instead of to the dance hall, to the fields and streams 

 instead of to the pool room. " " Greenhorn." 



Fly vs. Worm. "That fly-fishing is clean, and free 

 from the muscular efforts of mountain-climbing; that 

 it is usually rewarded with larger fish than those taken 

 with a worm; that it has a freedom, a jollity, a certain 

 broad, wide-spaced exhilaration, I willingly admit. 



