Related article: friend ; poor Purchase Clarithromycin old * Pudding ' Wil- liams is dead ! " Mr. Williams's son Stephen pulled No. 7 in the Oxford boat in the year when the oar broke ; another son is a master at Eton. The Johnsonian Angler I SUPPOSE that the aphorism as- cribed to Dr. Johnson, that the art of the fisherman is appropriately represented by a '' fool at one end of the rod and a worm at the other," may be accepted as, upon the whole, of greater authenticity than the well - worn statement accredited to the Duke of Welling- ton, that ** the battle of Waterloo was won in the playing-fields at Eton." Yet both are probably alike matters of opinion, and no doubt there are to-day some de- voted followers of old Izaak's gentle art who would almost be disposed to shake hands with the ponderous but heroic figure of " Bosweirs Life," and say that they Buy Clarithromycin Online would at once agree with him were angling to be confined to any such ignoble lure ! The cap- tor of the lordly Salmo solar, the dry-fly fisherman of the Hamp- shire chalk-stream, must be sup- posed to have little in common with a form of their art which, in the popular imagination at least, is understood to hold a meaner place. But nevertheless I think something is to be said for the fool and the worm, and I believe it may be even shown that, judged by the higher canons of sporty there are certain circum- stances under which these two individuals, so contemned of the great lexicographer, may claim to contribute a form of the angler's art which is not unworthy to rank even with that of the accomplished dry-fly fisher himself. Darwin Buy Clarithromycin has shown what^ despite certain drawbacks, a worthy and interest- ing animal the worm is, and that is a sufficiently good certificate of character for the one end of the rod. For the other, all brethren of the angle know that folly may dwell even with the seemingly wise, and that the fisherman, whatever his failings and weak- nesses, has no special monopoly of it! Now for the conditions under which we are to prove, or seek to prove, our assertions. The special circumstances of time and place are these : a low, clear, and com- paratively shallow trout stream, with deeper runs and pools here and there, such as are to be found in the South and East of Scotland — to wit, the Gala, the Whitadder, the Annan, he upper waters of the Tweed, and many others — brilliant sunshine, and a blue sky overhead ; say a warm day in June, with just enough breeze to temper the heat of the sun and add a touch of freshness to the air. Let the uninitiated, even if he be a good fisherman in other ways, attempt to kill a Buy Cheap Clarithromycin good basket of trout of perhaps 12 or I5lbs. weight under such condi- tions, and I warrant you he is ten times more likely to Order Clarithromycin fail than to succeed. It is undoubtedly diffi- cult, but yet it can be done when once the secret of it has been learned. But long and patient observation of the habits of trout, of the places in which they feed in such streams in summer, of the weather conditions most favour- 26 BAILYS MAGAZINE. [July able to the making of a basket, of the manner in which stream and pool should be approached and fished, Purchase Clarithromycin Online and a good deal of practice as well, are alike neces- sary before the tyro can become the accomplished fisherman with the worm in clear water. This, be it said at Clarithromycin Online once, is, however, a very different form of sport in every way from that which is associated in the average mind with bait fishing and its debasing accompaniments of coarse tackle, muddy or spated waters, and a fisherman who may stand with impunity on the very edge of the water, fish up stream or down stream at pleasure, drop his lure over the bank, or perhaps lie at ease with rod extended and float bobbing up and down on the pool in front of Generic Clarithromycin him, waiting for the fish to ** bite 1 " Can such a form of angling be reverently mentioned in the same breath with stalking one's trout stream by stream and pool by pool, as the dry-fly fisher also must do, and working pretty hard for every one that ultimately graces his basket ? I think not. For worm-fishing in clear water there is, first of all, necessary a long and moderately stiff rod, which will cast up-stream well against a wind, and to it should be added the finest tackle and a free- running reel. As regards hooks, we prefer for this ''particular kind of fishing — with its thin waters, where trout lie in the hot summer days, yet which are often barely enough to cover them — a two-hook Stewart tackle made of clear fine wires and dressed with a red body on drawn gut. The next, but perhaps the most essential thing of all, is to fish up stream^ for so it is of course that trout lie in running water, taking care to keep well back and out of sight, to approach all streams and pools with the greatest caution. always beginning at the tail or lower end of a run or pool and fishing upward and across it from the shallow side towards the deep, and with as light a hand as pos- sible. Very small red and well- scoured or prepared worms only should be used, and the lure should be dropped deftly/ and softly, almost like a fly, on the water. By casting in this way up stream the fisherman is, as we have shown, standing behind the fish and dropping the lure so that it comes down the water naturally towards the fish. The point of the rod should be kept moderately high and the line fairly taut, so as to strike sharply but lightly, and not too quickly, when the fish takes, while Order Clarithromycin Online the body should swing round towards the point of the rod as the latter is worked gradually down stream. When a fish is hooked, he should of course be played and landed, if possible, down stream, so as not to spoil the water higher up, as trout are often made extremely wary when disturbed by the play of a hooked fish. Wading is practically always necessary for fishing of this kind, both for the purpose of crossing and recrossing the stream, so that the pools may be approached in the proper way, and also that the angler may keep under rather than on the top of the banks, and in proper relation to the surface of the water. A further great advantage to the fisherman is a