Value of Tournament Work 



and while all good anglers are not good 

 tournament casters, yet nearly all the 

 good tournament casters of to-day are 

 good anglers. The very worst that can 

 happen to an angler who goes upon a 

 tournament platform, and is success- 

 ful, is to learn how to cast a long line. 

 What fly-fisherman would not like to 

 possess the ability to make a long cast 

 when he saw near the opposite bank of 

 a stream a good rise which he could 

 reach in no other way than by casting 

 his fly seventy or eighty feet or more? 

 The tournament casters also learn 

 much that is not generally learned in 

 other ways about tackle, about the ac- 

 tion of rods, the good and poor quali- 

 ties of various lines, and also learn to 

 handle rod and line in the manner of 

 an expert. 



There is also another great advan- 

 tage to the angler who is a proficient 



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