Angling Failures Explained 



pated results, though most carefully 

 fished, as I thought at the time. In 

 my imagination I have gone back to 

 some of these pools and fished them 

 over again. How often in the days 

 of the past had failures been due, not 

 so much to lack of knowledge of trout 

 habits, not to bungling casting, but to 

 poor generalship in choosing position? 

 There are times when there are ob- 

 stacles in the way that make it im- 

 possible to place one's self in the best 

 tactical position; but there are others 

 when this position is not taken simply 

 through ignorance, lack of study of the 

 situation, carelessness of methods, in- 

 difference, or — ^let us not deceive our- 

 selves — sheer indolence or lack of am- 

 bition. 



Here is a case in point: One day in 

 the last week in May, not many years 

 ago, I was wading a stream in SuUivan 



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