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Trout Habits; Lures and their Use, 

 Including Some Stream Entomology 



O matter how expert a theorist 

 one may be upon the subject 

 of how to catch trout, yet he 

 is not entitled to be called an 

 expert angler unless he "delivers 

 the goods," or, as Charles 

 Zibeon Southard trenchantly 

 remarks, unless he consistently 

 catches fish in all kinds of 

 waters and under all condi- 

 tions. There are some who do this, a vast 

 majority of whom, be it observed, have never 

 been afflicted with the morbus scribendi. Theo- 

 dore Gordon was one notable exception. (This 

 at once relegates the present writer to the 

 doubtful class, and thus having cleared his 

 conscience he will blithely proceed.) And yet 

 certain it is that these real experts have some 

 very definite ideas to guide them, and a resume 

 of their lore upon this fascinating topic should 

 be of interest to the tyro, and also of prac- 

 tical value to him when sufficiently combined with 

 actual stream experience. 

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