The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
ROMANCE
THE PHILosOPHlC ANGLER.
Chicago Editor Gives Reasons why Some

Chicago Editor Gives Reasons Why Some
Fishermen Catch Nothing.
Our valued friends, MIR. Opie P. Read
and Mr.. Stanley Waterloo, have invited US
to 90 fishing with them. Beginning in
mere infancy with tie artless but glitter
ing minnow, we have worked our way up
and along the ascending scale, thousands
upon thousands of pumpkin seeds, dace,
perch, bullheads, cells, pike, pickersl aRA
bass falling victims 10 our incompatible
art. We have been importuned TO write
book about angling; publishers have come
TO US and Desougnt US with tears in their
eyes TO give the world the vast benefit OF
our knowledge. But we have resisted
these temptations for the reason that,
knowing that our proficiency is gilt
rather than an accomplishment, We believe
that the true fisherman Is born, not made
/ Some VINO have scrutinized our methods
/ assert that the secret of our unparalleled
| success Is due largely TO the fact that we
invariably spit upon our bait. Others
maintain that we catch fish because we
never swear, and others still impute our
success 10 the circumstance that under no
[ circumstances whatever will we go fishing
on sunday There are those, We repeat,
who honestly lay our success to these
secret causes, but they are all in grievous
error.
Our remarkable accomplishments do not
depend at all upon these trivial things we
catch nsh simply because we were born
with that subtle, iudefnable genius for
catching fish which cannot be comprehend
ed save cOngenlally or Dy the mysterious
process OF neredity.
The question which arises is whether it
would be righteous OF US TO prostitute this
noble genius 10 the ends which Messrs.
Read and Waterloo suggest. Would it not
oe a criminal waste or time for US TO de-
vote from SIX 10 eight hours a day to that
iackadaisical footing which those mis-
: guided friends OF ours call fishing! 1t
strikes Us that we could be much better
. employed than at the questionable sport OF
uoddering about in an awkward yawl in
/ pursuit of emaciated perch and neu-
r raSIhenic pickerel. When we fish we want
10 fish, and we are not content with ca
7 daverous hllputian prey; we demand
2 heroic game.
! Messrs. Read and Waterloo are very
e clever gentlemen, but they have yet TO
learn that just as a rolling stone gathers
S no moss, so rowing angler comprehends
. no game. These two amateur spor:smen
g DO sooner get into a boat and cast their
= lines than they are filed with the absurd
9 conviction that the best fishing is to be
), found mile away, under q distant bank
}. yet 10 sooner IS this lar OF spot reached
d than they are possessed of another ano
< more violent conviction that a still more
7 desirable angling spot is the rushes against
q the furtaer shore OF the lake. And so from
e one locality TO another they must be trans
z ported, never content 10 try the present
d waters, but always goaded on by the in
Q sane hope of finding enormous success
z elsewhere.
0 Lie is full of this spirit Of impatienci
It and unrest, and that is why there are 81
: few fish caught. As for Us. it contents III
to push out from the shore, drop the an
e cnOr and cast our line; no worry, no fret
u ting, no labor-simply equanimity and re
It pose and success. What sweeter thing il
If there to be practiced or imagined than Ihj
is sport as we pursue it, We lie in the bot
e tom of the boat, our mead pillowed upon
n cushion at the DOW; green um brells lore
x tends the ardOr of the sun, and with CON
" panionsble book the hours are beguied
s. The humble but serviceable bob informs U
If when 1T is time for action. On, this
a. fishing that is indeed fishing, Why to-
hither and thither over the ruffled expans
when fruition comes easier with repose
The veriest cIod can row and sweat, bu
b only a genius can philosophize aud cate
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