1 68 WINTER ANGLING 



not recommend my young friends to pursue it. I 

 want them all to be true sportsmen — first, last, 

 and all the time ; and so I have been careful that 

 not one word in all this book gives a hint of any- 

 thing but angling with a hook and line, so that 

 the quarry the angler is pursuing for food and fun 

 may have a good chance for its life every time. 



The other forms of winter fishing possible in 

 the South and in Great Britain are not described 

 in this chapter. They are essentially similar to 

 those referred to in- the earlier pages ; for the sea- 

 sons, of course, vary according to the latitude. 

 What is true of the East and North, however, is, 

 in the main, true of the West and South ; and 

 the same methods apply pretty generally all over 

 the country, taking into account the differences 

 of temperature. A lengthened experience has 

 shown me that a good fisherman in England is a 

 good fisherman on the American continent, and a 

 good^angler in the East is a good one in the West. 

 I shall, therefore, not enlarge further on winter 

 fishing as it is in latitudes other than the one in 

 which I am writing. 



There is, however, yet one other kind of winter 

 fishing that may be spoken of here. I refer to 



