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not have hooked him — you are in no position to strike with your rod any higher than fifty degrees. The young angler's temptation is to hurriedly make another cast directly at the fish returning to his lair. Not us. We will make another cast down stream and give him a chance to get back to his hole. Now we'll try again. He is suspicious and merely chases the fly so we will offer him a change of diet by hooking on a new fly and a spinner. I'll put this little gold one on. Foolish fishes, like foolish folks, are attracted by the glitter of gold and for it give up their liberty and even their lives. But what can it give them that compares with freedom and the joys of going a-fishing! Now, Mr. Bass, try that! Ho! Ho! He merely chases it so we will follow my friend Peet's advice. He says if he rises a fish and fails to hook him on a wet fly he switches to a floater, or vice versa, and always gets another rise. Now, floater; do your duty. There! I have him hooked. He's a nice one, too. Now observe how I play him. Note that I keep the tip up just enough to keep a good bend in the rod. See, I strip in what slack he gives me and pay it out again slowly when he appears to be pulling too hard for the probable strength of my leader. Now he leaps but the spring of the rod keeps the line taut although I watch my knitting and see that he does not fall on the stretched leader. If he had I would have lowered the rod tip and given him some slack. He's getting tired and I slowly and firmly work him up stream of me. Still keeping a good curve in the rod I reel in the slack line. Then I pinch the |
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