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that I have so often uttered, namely, that no fisher- 

 man can hope to succeed when using gear or patterns 

 in which he has no confidence, and as a natural 

 sequence that the more confidence he feels in his 

 gear and his patterns of artificial flies, the more likely 

 he is to rise, hook, and kill his trout under all circum- 

 stances and every conceivable condition. 



