Fishing with a worm, by Bliss Perry by Perry Bliss 1860-1954

Author:Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fishing
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton and Mifflin company
Published: 1916-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

FISHING WITH A WORM

from the lake, tlie swift darkness of the North Country made it impossible to see the hook. A short half hour's fishing only, and behold nearly twenty good trout derricked into a basket until then sadly empty. Your rigorous fly-fisherman would have passed that grass-hidden brook in disdain, but it proved a treasure for the humble. Here, indeed, there was no question of individually-minded fish, but simply a neglected brook, full of trout which could be reached with the baited hook only. In more open brook-fishing it is always a fascinating problem to decide how to fish a favorite pool or ripple, for much depends upon the hour of the day, the light, the height of water, the precise period of the spring or summer. But after one has decided upon the best theoretical procedure, how often the stupid trout prefers some other plan! And when you have missed a fish that you counted upon landing, what solid satisfaction is still possible for you, if you are philosopher enough to sit down then and there, eat your lunch, smoke a meditative pipe, and devise a new campaign against that particular fish! To get another rise from him after lunch is a triumph of diplomacy ; to land him is nothing short of states-US ]

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