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FOREST AND STREAM 
SALT WATER FISHING. 
To Editor of Forest and Stream: 
In regard to your article in issue of April 25 
entitled, “Salt Water Fishing,” would say that 
whoever wrote same should learn to write on a 
subject intelligently and without bias, before un¬ 
dertaking to do so. 
“Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be 
wise,” and from the tone of your article the 
writer has evidently absorbed what little 
knowledge he displays from the pot hunter, who 
is in an entirely different class from the true 
salt water angler, who compares in personality 
and equipment with the best fresh water anglers. 
In the matter of skill required, I personally 
have angled for both fresh and salt water fish, 
and would state that the knack of casting with 
a surf rod calls into play not alone accuracy and 
skill, but the handling of striped bass and chan¬ 
nel bass requires not as much but more ingenuity 
than is necessary in the landing of a black bass, 
and when it comes to capturing a tuna from a 
boat, has the sport attending the catching of a 
muscallouge or salmon tied, if not beaten. 
Of course we’ll acknowledge that the tackle 
adaptable for one kind of fishing would not af¬ 
ford a similar amount of sport for another; for 
instance no sane angler would endeavor to 
handle a channel bass with a 2 1-2 ounce trout 
rod, no more than he would think of angling for 
a trout with a 13-ounce surf rod. 
I have yet to meet the surf fisherman that 
acknowledges that the ocean has a depressing ef¬ 
fect on him, as your article states, and if there 
is anything more beautiful in the way of na¬ 
tural scenery than that glorious orb of day, the 
sun, as it rises over the eastern horizon, or as 
its last shadows reflect all the colors of the 
rainbow on the ocean’s surface as it sinks in 
the West, I would like to see it, and I have 
visited a number of lakes and enjoyed mountain 
scenery as well. 
Hartie I. Phillips. 
May 7, 1914. 
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