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New York and its suburbs are experts at casting a fly for 
trout or a bait for bass; and, in my opinion, they lend one 
of the principal charms to ruralizing. Ido not like the pent- 
up, hide-bound, cynical geniuses of the Diogenes quality, nor 
yet of those bachelors whose rectangular apartments each 
side of a hall in our hotels are not inappropriately consider- 
ed by some as stalls for the stray oxen of society. I agree 
with Brother Lathy that 
“No scenes more suited are to themes of love, 
Than whilst on rivers’ banks you fish and rove; 
T’ instruct the fair the happy lover tries, 
And, grateful, she rewards him with her eyes. 
No longer, then, our angling sports disdain, 
Since Venus sprung from Ocean poets feign, 
Rising all beauteous from the briny main: 
As, of our grief, do thou partake our pleasure— 
Our life, our heart, our soul, our earthly treasure!” 
When you decide to troll for a day over the tumultuously- 
seething and hissing waters of Hell Gate, where an oarsman 
must know the tides and shoals to keep his boat right side 
up, you will require heavier tackle, and will therefore select 
them from the plate of “implements for angling 
y in lakes, 
bays, rivers,” ete., on the following page. ; 
Select a rod from 8 to 9 feet long, like A,B,C, in the en- 
graving. Let it taper regularly and be rather heavy. The 
butt and second joint should be made of ash, and the top of 
lancewood, Bell-metal top and guides are best for mount- 
ing a trolling-rod, while agate or carnelian are best for the 
purpose of casting a long distance, as the friction is less on 
jewels than on metals. The guides for all kinds of bass 
angling should be large enough to pass a knot in the line 
through them. In ringing rods for salmon and trout, the 
rings should be diminished in size from butt to tip, as the 
rods taper; but such is not the case with bass guides, all of 
which should be equal in size and shape, and polished for the 
line to run smoothly. Large guides are a modern invention. 
About ten years ago I was fishing at West Island—that par- 
