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THE ANGLER’S WORKSHOP 
Rodmaking for Beginners 
By PERRY D. FRAZER 
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epitomizing the knowledge and experience of experts for the guidance of the 
average man. The evolution of bait-casting principles has made Mr. Frazer’s book 
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ideas of what they should be, will find in this book a large fund of information gathered 
by the author in years of study, experiment and practical experience in fishing, tournament 
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Complete specifications of well known types are given, and the chapter on split bamboo 
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FOUR FISH AT ONCE. 
It is something after all to be the hero of a 
record, even if it does not mean much, and per¬ 
haps the successful landing of four fish on one 
cast is not unworthy of being rescued from ob¬ 
livion. It happened with me here on the Shan¬ 
non some few years ago in the last, or very 
nearly the last, of my seasons with the wet fly, 
and is the more remarkable, as I have not fished 
with four flies on my cast half a dozen times in 
my life. I was Ashing from a boat anchored at the 
tail of the strong broken water of the weir, and 
rose and hooked what I saw was a trout of 
about half a pound. Presently, as I was play¬ 
ing him his motions seemed to become most 
erratic; he would pull heavily down, and then 
instantly there would be slack, or a movement 
down stream would become a movement up with 
a suddenness quite bewildering, and for a few 
minutes I could make neither head nor tail of 
the action that was going on below. At last on 
the line coming closer I saw there was a good 
sized perch on the highest dropper, and pres¬ 
ently I saw a second perch on the lower, while 
a moment after I was astonished to see that 
my trout was also still on the point with a 
smaller one on the dropper next him. None of 
the flsh was large, of course, though the perch 
next me was quite a pound; but I saw there 
was scarcely a possible chance to get all four 
into the boat safely, so hauling up the stone 
and rope which held me, I quietly started pad¬ 
dling for the shore, a hundred yards off with 
alternate strokes of the oars. Strange to say, I 
reached the low shelving shore without a single 
one of them escaping, and slipping out of the 
boat drew the whole string ashore in triumph. 
The four fish were about two pounds in weight, 
and I had an applauding gallery of several young 
fellows on the bank whom it took me all my 
time to restrain from rushing into the shallow 
water to scoop out the struggling fish when they 
saw the extraordinary catch I was trying to drag 
ashore.—Field. 
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