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From:
Fly Fishing by Grey of Fallondon (1899)
"....To throw a fly well is one step, and it is essential.
but not by itself enough. A habit of attention
and observation is at least equally important, and
this observation must have a wide range. It
must take notice of the ways of fish at all times,
especially when feeding and when hooked; of
different conditions of weather and water, and of
the effect of these, till by degrees the angler will
have at his disposal a little individual store,
peculiarly his own, of suggestions, hints and
probabilities. Things that he watches, or sees
happen season by season, come to have meanings,
and are signs which suggest expedients as the
result of former experience. The attention of
an angler must not be a barren but a fertile
attention. His observation should add to his
knowledge in a manner which has a direct bear-
ing on his sport. He should make guesses
founded upon something which he has noticed,
and be ever on the watch for some further
indications to turn the guess into a conclusion.
We have now arrived at two main qualities —
the first being a certain physical cleverness, and
the second an attentive and suggestive mind. But
there is a third which seems to me important.
It is self-control ; for if an angler is really
keen, he will have many struggles with himself
in early days. The greater the keenness the more
bitter the disappointment, and the more highly
nerves have been strung by excitement the more
likely are we to collapse under disaster. And
yet it is a pity, and a waste of good things, that
the loss of even the biggest fish should make the
other pleasures and successes of the day of no
account. In angling,- as in all other recreations
into which excitement enters, we have to be upon
our guard, so that we can at any moment throw
a weight of self-control into the scale against
misfortune, and happily we can study to some
purpose, both to increase our pleasure in success
and to lessen the distress caused by what goes
ill. It is not only in cases of great disasters,
however, that the angler needs self-control. He
is perpetually called upon to use it to withstand
small exasperations. There are times when all
small things seem adverse, when the hook is
perpetually catching in inanimate objects, when
unexpected delays and difficulties of various kinds
occur at undesirable moments, when fish will rise
short, or when they feed greedily on natural
flies, and will not look at artificial ones. "
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