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THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 
SIR ISAACS IDEAL DISCIPLE IS NOT NECES¬ 
SARILY HE WHO CATCHES THE MOST FISH. 
By VIRGINIUS. 
T HE complete angler is not he who best 
catches fish, but rather he who catches 
fish and contentment. 
There is the man who is up betides and 
off for his day’s fishing with the sun. All 
day long he fishes with all his might; he 
catches fish—plenty of them. Every min¬ 
ute he is tense, and thoroughly alive to 
every chance for hooking a fish. When 
he misses a strike, it annoys him intensely, 
and he works the harder. He is undoubt¬ 
edly an expert fisherman, and enjoys his 
art greatly; but his contentment comes at 
the end of the day as he gazes on the fish 
he has caught. 
Then there is the man who goes forth 
more leisurely. He too fishes all day, and 
catches a fish. But he strolls along the 
stream, not only awake to the chances of 
catching fish, but on the alert to see the lit¬ 
tle wren that pops about in the trees; the 
gray squirrels that scamper along the 
ground and with a bound go tearing up 
into the highest branches. He finds time 
to lie down on a mossy spot and, gazing 
up through the winking leaves, to smoke 
his pipe and dream. He is up again when 
the pipe is finished, perhaps to spend an 
hour over one small pool. If he misses a 
rise, he does not worry; it offers a chance 
to pit his skill against the wariness of 
mister fish. 
And the pool must rest before he will 
cast again; this is welcomed as a chance 
to wander off through the woods for a 
while. All the wild things mean some¬ 
thing to this angler. He has all day, and 
the miles of stream he covers amount to 
naught. He may not cover more than half 
a mile, but every inch of that distance 
gives him his contentment; he does not 
have to wait ’til his day’s sport is over 
to feel contented, or until he has creeled 
so many fish, or one of such and such a 
size. 
The fact that he is fishing is what counts 
with him: to be off in the woods and 
meadows, following some quiet brook, 
away from the strenuousness of every day; 
finding there happiness and perfect con¬ 
tentment. 
He is the complete angler. 
This Book Tells the How of Bait Casting 
—gives complete instructions in this branch of the angling sport 
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found within its covers. It also describes many specialties which 
have proven popular in waters from Canada to Texas and from 
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