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As it is with trout so is it with salmon. When 

 they are alarmed by the approach of your canoe, 

 the glint of your paddle or the shadow of your rod, 

 they do not rush from the pool, but they do what 

 the leopard cannot do they change their spots, 

 retiring it may be fifty, eighty or a hundred feet 

 from where your are anchored. If then you have 

 the skill to reach them, you have a great advantage 

 over those who have but half your skill. Hence 

 my theory that success is always with the angler 

 who makes the longest casts. 



I once saw this very strikingly illustrated in a 

 broad pool in which two friends were fishing at the 

 same time. They were anchored on either side, 

 and there was " ample space and verge enough " 

 for both. But one could never get out more than 

 sixty feet of line, while eighty or ninety feet was 

 an easy cast for the other. With this exception, 

 both were equally expert, equally enthusiastic and 

 equally familiar with the habits and dainty tastes 

 of their coveted prey. But the long cast scored 

 two to his neighbor's one, because he 'had practically 

 two-thirds of the pool. It is always thus, and hence 

 every angler either for trout or salmon, should, if 

 possible, acquire the art of giving his line a long 

 sweep. 



But some never acquire this art. Most novices 

 start out with the idea that it simply requires the 



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