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THE ARDENT ANGLER. 
I have also seen excellent fly-fishers with such an extem- 
porized rod as Josh Billings recommends. On Pine Creek, 
in Pennsylvania, anglers who fish for a livelihood use such a 
rod, and fish with only one clumsily-tied fly. They wade the 
stream—which is a good plan to avoid meeting rattlesnakes 
—and to a string tied over the left shoulder and under the 
left arm they attach their fish, and tow them along as they 
angle down the stream. On some days they take from thirty 
to fifty pounds of trout. On Trout Run, a tributary to Ly- 
coming Creek, the best native anglers use a rod formed of 
two hickory joints lashed together, and a top joint of whale- 
bone lashed on—whole length about nine feet. They fish 
down stream, wading the middle of the creek where not too 
deep, and casting right and left some forty feet, under boughs 
which barely clear the water, bringing out large prismatic 
beauties at nearly every cast with a single fly of domestic 
make. They do this where gentlemen amateurs, from all 
parts of the country, find it extremely difficult to get a rise 
to their superior flies, though presented with the best make 
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