HINTS TO ANGLERS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 220, 17 October 1929, Page 5

HINTS TO ANGLERS

STUDY TO BE QTTET. ADYANTAGE OF KNOWLEDGE. Every angler kuows the man who will be quiet about nothing except tbe place where he eaught a creel of fisli and one tliirty inches long. This man is usuallv a menace to tlie fine art of fly fishing, for he goes out of his routine for one reason, and tliat is to proeure fish. Not having studied and become proficient in all the subtleties of the art of. angling he considers tliat if he lias a rod. reef and line and a small number of necessary appendages he will be able to fulfil all his promises to 1ns expectant friends. One of these noisy anglers was on a river last year with a ratlicr rude rod and like equipment, and, finding that not a trout came forward and pleaded to he allowed to go into his creel* lie recognised that it was all a fraud ancl that eels only lived in tliat river. A gentleman who happened to stroll along at this time offered the "rod" a small snni for his equipment hefore any evil overtook it, for. judging by tbe sayings of tbe owner, tbe stuff was all to blame. Now Tsaac Walton, wl\o with his friend, Clias. Cotton. founded tbe. art of angling, entrdats anglers to liave quiet minds and says, "study to be quiet." No shv fisb such as a tvout was ever eaught hv tlie nninitiated except b.v tlie greatest , accident. wlien tlie tyro acted rightly witliout knowledge of doing so. _ . Angling is an intejlectual pursmt in wliieb tlie pri7.es are. awardod to the cleverest artist who _overcomes all difficulties or lias studied his oocupation ,so well that. he knows how to catch 'fisli on all occasions.