CHAPTEK XXX. 



FISHING AT SETTING POLE RAPIDS TWO NOTE- 

 WORTHY INCIDENTS. 



PISCATOR, Jr. To come to this fine stream at the head of 

 this great pool, you must venture over these slippery, cob- 

 bling stones. Believe me, sir, there you were nimble or else 

 you were down ! But now you are got over, look to yourself; 

 for on my word, if a fish rise here, he is like to be such a one 

 as will endanger your tackle. How now ! 



VIATOR I think you have such command here over the 

 fishes, that you can raise them by your hand as they say con- 

 jurors can do spirits and afterward make them do what you 

 bid them ; for here's a trout has taken my fly ! I had rather 

 have lost a crown. What luck's this ! He was a lovely fish, 

 and turned up a side like a salmon ! \Charles Cotton. 





TIE excitement of angling increases 

 with the risks incurred. There is 

 but very little pleasure in taking 

 a three-pound trout upon a two- 

 pound rod, with a No. 9 bait hook 

 and a line strong enough for a 

 shark. Such angling requires 

 neither art nor skill. But a three- 

 pound trout on a tiny fly-hook 

 attached to a gossamer leader and 

 line, the whole depending from an eight-ounce 

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