dows and waves, and noisy wading. 
Blame the pattern of your fly last of 
all, and don’t spend too much time 
changing flies. The same amount of 
energy spent in dropping the fly lightly 
on water, in the right place, and having 
it float down over the fish naturally 
will do more good than everlastingly 
changing flies. 
Space forbids that I try to make an 
expert out of you in this short article; 
in fact with all the space in the world 
I couldn’t do so. Watch the men who 
know the game; you will find them a 
generous lot of fellows and willing to 
help you if you are willing to confess 
to ignorance. Don’t ever make the 
mistake of trying to give an old-timer 
the impression that you know the game 
if you don’t; he’ll soon find you out, 
and won’t be so keen about helping you 
when he does. Fly fishing for trout is 
just about the cleanest sport in the 
world, and it is certainly one which is 
well worth sticking to until it is mas- 
tered, at least as much so as a mere 
mortal can hope to master it. Every 
day on the stream will bring new prob- 
lems; every man you meet will add just 
a little more to your store of knowl- 
edge; and every fish that you catch will 
add to your experience—and joy in life. 

Angling for Common Fishes 
(Continued from page 399) 
stranger would say he would not bite. 
But wait. There is a movement of his 
continuation, and his cow-catcher moves 
toward the piece of liver. He does not 
wait to smell of it and canvas in his 
mind whether the liver is fresh. He 
argues that there is a family out of 
meat, so he opens his mouth and the 
liver disappears. It is not certain that 
the boy will think of his bait for 
half an hour, but the bullhead is in 
no hurry. He is in the mud and 
proceeds to digest the liver. He 
realizes that his days will not be 
long in the land, or water, more prop- 
erly speaking, and he argues out that 
he will be so much ahead. Finally 
the boy thinks of the bait, pulls it 
out, and the bullhead is landed on the 
bank, and the boy cuts him open to get 
the hook out. Some fish take the bait 
gingerly, and are only caught around 
the selvage of the mouth, and they 
are very easily dislodged. Not so with 
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the bullhead. He says if liver ‘is a 
good thing, you can’t get too much of 
it, and it tastes good all the way down. 
The boy gets down on his knees to 
dissect the bullhead and get his hook, 
and it may be that the boy swears. 
It would not be astonishing, though he 
must feel, when he gets the hook out 
of the hidden recesses of the bullhead, 
like the minister who took up a collec- 
tion and didn’t get a cent, though he 
expressed thanks for getting his hat 
back. There is one drawback to the 
bullhead, and that is in his horns. We 
doubt if a boy ever descended into the 
patent insides of a bullhead to mine 
for limerick hooks that he did not, be- 
fore his work was done, run a horn 
into his vital parts. But the boy seems 
to expect it, and the bullhead enjoys it. 
We have seen the bullhead lie on the 
bank and become dry and to all appear- 
ances dead to all that was going on, 
and when a boy sat down on him and 
got a horn in his elbow and yelled 
murder, the bullhead would grin from 
ear to ear and wag his tail as though 
applauding for an encore.” 
As the humorist has said, one does 
not need to display an expensive lot of 
fishing tackle to interest the bullhead. 
It may be that there is a more likely 
bait than liver, for a lure, but I doubt 
it, and be it even putrid the bullhead 
will think just as much of it as though 
it were fresh cut. The most common 
method of fishing for the bullhead is to 
use a long line, preferably of the cotton 
sort with a sinker attached to it, heavy 
enough so that it can be thrown out 
into the water a suitable distance. The 
hook is of the type known as a bass 
hook and it is baited with a piece of 
liver at least an inch in diameter. The 
end of the line is tied to some object 
on shore and then coiled on the shore. 
The business end of the line is now 
whirled around the head and is.then 
thrown out into the water smartly. It 
falls to water and sinks and then all 
that it is necessary for the “waiter” to 
do is to wait the slight pull on the line 
that will indicate that the fish has the 
lure in mouth, or in his stomach—and 
chances are it is his stomach. Some- 
times the line will lie in the path of the 
moonlight on the water and the pull on 
the line can be detected even before the 
feel is conveyed to the finger tips. Bull- 
head fishing at night has none of the 
excitement of fishing for the game 
fishes. It is an ideal sport for the con- 
templative angler. One.does not have 
to row over miles upon miles of water 
to catch a brace or so of fish. There is 
little physical exercise to it—but it 
has that mysterious quality that brings 
with it a quiet joy hard to define. For 
one thing, it is the surest way to revive 
ones memories of youth, for a night at 
the shore of a mill-pond, with the moon 


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