Photo by L. J. Tooley 



THE RESULT OF A MORNING S PISHING 



leave it lying so carelessly around, and 

 away to the lake this time — no more stream 

 fishing for me. Give me a bright, clear, sun- 

 shiny day, and how delightful to lie back 

 in the boat, to be rocked by the gentle waves 

 and fanned by the delightfully cool breeze, 

 and what seems better still, absorb some of 

 the grandeur of God's sunshine. In my 

 mind, I vary the monotony of this pro- 

 gramme by occasionally pulling in one of 

 the fighting beauties of the deep. 



How perfect and delightful this appears 

 (on paper), but how many of us have had 

 visions, thought thoughts, and dreamed 

 dreams the night before, only to have them 

 shattered when experiencing reality the next 

 day. 



First, we have difficulty in securing a boat, 

 and invariably get a leaky one. One of the 

 strange things of life is that a boat will re- 

 main in the water for two weeks as dry 

 inside as a drum, but when the fisherman 

 is a half-mile from shore it will develop no 

 less than forty leaks, and soon it seems 



there is more water in the boat than in the 

 lake. 



Then the hot sun burns the back of our 

 neck, until we are convinced that we are 

 more of a lobster than we ever imagined — 

 and the end of our nose ! For weeks we must 

 stand the scoffing of our friends about the 

 kind of bait we used on that trip. 



The hard side of the board which we held 

 down ! They always make boat seats with 

 the hard side up. A rod in one hand and a 

 hand line in the other, we wait patiently 

 with only occasionally a nibble, as a ittle 

 perch, or "punkin-seed," mistakes the sinker 

 or the knot above the hook for something 

 eatable. 



The angleworms become soft and use- 

 less; the minnows all die; then we decide to 

 move. "This isn't a very good place, any- 

 way; we wanted to try it, though — a feller 

 caught a five -pounder there once." Now we 

 get hold of the anchor rope, at the bottom 

 of which was a modest little weight which 

 would only tip the scales at about four 



