ances, arise from the fatal predilection for a rod heavier than the
owner can legitimately bear, or from the use of a line too fine or too
coarse for the rod. Exercise is then over-exercise, injurious, and not
good for body or temper.

Salmon fishing from a boat is imagined by some to be objectionable
because it demands no exertion by the angler. This is an erroneous
conclusion, though doubtless the method brings certain muscles into
play to an unequal degree. At the same time, fishing from the bank, as
it is called for convenience, though the angler never stands upon one,
is the most enjoyable of all methods. There is a rapture in the stream
as in the pathless woods.

In the foregoing remarks upon heavy rods I had possibly in my mind the
angler whose life is not entirely devoted to the open air. The
increase to which reference has been made has been chiefly from the
class of professional men, merchants, and others who have duties which
allow of only occasional relaxation devoted to the river. To such the
donning of wading gear for the first time in the season, the entrance
into the clear running water, the cautious advance upon the amber
gravel or solid rock, the swirl of the rushing stream around the knees,
the sensation of cold through the waterproofing, the arrival at length
at the point where the head of the pool is within range--these are a
keen delight. The pulses fly again when the hooked salmon is felt, and
the tightening line curves the rod from point to hand. Exercise,
indeed! Half an hour's battle with a fighting salmon, including a race
in brogues of a hundred yards or more over shingle or boulders will,
when the fish is gaffed and laid on the strand, find the best of men
well breathed and not sorry to sit him down till his excitement has
cooled and his nerves are once more steady.

Next in order, as a form of healthy exercise, comes pike fishing, as
practised by the spinner with small dead fish, the artificial
imitations of them, or the endless variations of the spoon, invented,
it is claimed, by an angler in the United States. Live baiting in a
river with float requires sufficient energy to walk at the same speed
as the current flows; by still water or in a boat the angler comes, of
course, fairly into the comprehension of the lady who was introduced on
another page. He watches and waits, and the more closely he imitates
the heron in his motionless patience the better for his chances. The
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