The Angler's Guide a Handbook of the Haunts and Habits, of the Popular Game Fishes, Inland and Marine, With Their Portraits and an Alphabetical Index ... Baits, Rods and Tackle, of the Expert

A nglers. men of mild, and sweet, and peaceful spirits. Moses and the Prophet A mos were both A nglers. Izaak Walton. Trout Fishing in theO unnison River, near Cebolla, Colorado. What a man brings home in his heart after fishing is of more account than what he brings in his basket. W.J. Long. HE Angler represents the highest order of fisherman. All anglers are fishermen, but all fishermen are not anglers. There is the same distinction in the angler and the fisherman as there is in the horseman and the jockey, and the yachtsman and the sailor. As some one has said before, there is no commercial side to angling. It is a noble, recreative pastime, indulged in by those who value the pursuit as much as they value the |;ame. The angler never judges his day by the size of his creel, while the mere fisherman always does so. It squality with the angler, quantity with the ordinary fisherman. There are many kinds of anglers and many kinds of angling; so are there many kinds of fishermen and many ways to go fishing, but, setting aside the savage who fishes with a spear and the Japanese who have birds (cormorants )fish for them, generally speaking, there are but two common forms of fishing and three kinds of fishermen. The two common forms of fishing are represented in fishing with the hook and line, and nshing with the net, and the three general classes of fishermen are represented in the angler, the net fisherman and the hand-line fisher the angler, the fisherman and the fisher.
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