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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at <a href = "https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: Fishing with a Worm</p> +<p>Author: Bliss Perry</p> +<p>Release Date: July 27, 2005 [eBook #16369]<br /> +[Last updated: September 25, 2020]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FISHING WITH A WORM***</p> +<br><br><center><h3>E-text prepared by Michael Gray (Lost_Gamer@comcast.net)</h3></center><br><br> +<hr noshade> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p class="center"><img src="images/sun.jpg" alt="The rising sun"> +<br>FISHING WITH A WORM</p> +<p class="fish"><b>FISHING<br>WITH A WORM</b></p> +<p class="by">BY</p> +<p class="center">BLISS PERRY </p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p class="by">BOSTON AND NEW YORK<br> +HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY<br> +<br> +MDCCCCXVI<br><br><br><br><br> +<img src="images/fishing.jpg" alt="A tree"></p> +<br><br> +<p class="center"><img src="images/hr.jpg" alt=" "> +<br><br>FISHING WITH A WORM</p> +<br> +<p class="quote">"The last fish I caught was with + a worm."—IZAAK WALTON.</p> +<p>A defective logic is the born fisherman's portion. He is a pattern of +inconsistency. He does the things which he ought not to do, and he +leaves undone the things which other people think he ought to do. He +observes the wind when he should be sowing, and he regards the clouds, +with temptation tugging familiarly at his heartstrings, when he might +be grasping the useful sickle. It is a wonder that there is so much +health in him. A sorrowing political economist remarked to me in early +boyhood, as a jolly red-bearded neighbor, followed by an abnormally fat +dog, sauntered past us for his nooning: "That man is the best carpenter +in town, but he will leave the most important job whenever he wants to +go fishing." I stared at the sinful carpenter, who swung along +leisurely in the May sunshine, keeping just ahead of his dog. To leave +one's job in order to go fishing! How illogical! +<br><br> +Years bring the reconciling mind. The world grows big enough to include +within its scheme both the instructive political economist and the +truant mechanic. But that trick of truly logical behavior seems harder +to the man than to the child. For example, I climbed up to my den under +the eaves last night—a sour, black sea-fog lying all about, and the +December sleet crackling against the window-panes—in order to varnish +a certain fly-rod. Now rods ought to be put in order in September, when +the fishing closes, or else in April, when it opens. To varnish a rod +in December proves that one possesses either a dilatory or a childishly +anticipatory mind. But before uncorking the varnish bottle, it occurred +to me to examine a dog-eared, water-stained fly-book, to guard against +the ravages of possible moths. This interlude proved fatal to the +varnishing. A half hour went happily by in rearranging the flies. Then, +with a fisherman's lack of sequence, as I picked out here and there a +plain snell-hook from the gaudy feathered ones, I said to myself with a +generous glow at the heart: "Fly-fishing has had enough sacred poets +celebrating it already. Is n't there a good deal to be said, after all, +for fishing with a worm?" +<br><br> +Could there be a more illogical proceeding? And here follows the +treatise,—a Defense of Results, an Apology for + Opportunism,—conceived +in agreeable procrastination, devoted to the praise of the +inconsequential angleworm, and dedicated to a childish memory of a +whistling carpenter and his fat dog. +<br><br> +Let us face the worst at the very beginning. It shall be a shameless +example of fishing under conditions that make the fly a mockery. Take +the Taylor Brook, "between the roads," on the headwaters of the +Lamoille. The place is a jungle. The swamp maples and cedars were +felled a generation ago, and the tops were trimmed into the brook. The +alders and moosewood are higher than your head; on every tiny knoll the +fir balsams have gained a footing, and creep down, impenetrable, to the +edge of the water. In the open spaces the Joe-Pye weed swarms. In two +minutes after leaving the upper road you have scared a mink or a +rabbit, and you have probably lost the brook. Listen! It is only a +gurgle here, droning along, smooth and dark, under the tangle of +cedar-tops and the shadow of the balsams. Follow the sound cautiously. +There, beyond the Joe-Pye weed, and between the stump and the cedar-top, +is a hand's breadth of black water. Fly-casting is impossible in this +maze of dead and living branches. Shorten your line to two feet, or even +less, bait your hook with a worm, and drop it gingerly into that +gurgling crevice of water. Before it has sunk six inches, if there is +not one of those black-backed, orange-bellied, Taylor Brook trout +fighting with it, something is wrong with your worm or with you. For +the trout are always there, sheltered by the brushwood that makes this +half mile of fishing "not worth while." Below the lower road the Taylor +Brook becomes uncertain water. For half a mile it yields only +fingerlings, for no explainable reason; then there are two miles of +clean fishing through the deep woods, where the branches are so high +that you can cast a fly again if you like, and there are long pools, +where now and then a heavy fish will rise; then comes a final half mile +through the alders, where you must wade, knee to waist deep, before you +come to the bridge and the river. Glorious fishing is sometimes to be +had here,—especially if you work down the gorge at twilight, casting a +white miller until it is too dark to see. But alas, there is a +well-worn path along the brook, and often enough there are the very +footprints of the "fellow ahead of you," signs as disheartening to the +fisherman as ever were the footprints on the sand to Robinson Crusoe. +<br><br> +But "between the roads" it is "too much trouble to fish;" and there +lies the salvation of the humble fisherman who disdains not to use the +crawling worm, nor, for that matter, to crawl himself, if need be, in +order to sneak under the boughs of some overhanging cedar that casts a +perpetual shadow upon the sleepy brook. Lying here at full length, with +no elbow-room to manage the rod, you must occasionally even unjoint +your tip, and fish with that, using but a dozen inches of line, and not +letting so much as your eyebrows show above the bank. Is it a becoming +attitude for a middle-aged citizen of the world? That depends upon how +the fish are biting. Holing a put looks rather ridiculous also, to the +mere observer, but it requires, like brook-fishing with a tip only, a +very delicate wrist, perfect tactile sense, and a fine disregard of +appearances. +<br><br> +There are some fishermen who always fish as if they were being +photographed. The Taylor Brook "between the roads" is not for them. To +fish it at all is back-breaking, trouser-tearing work; to see it +thoroughly fished is to learn new lessons in the art of angling. To +watch R., for example, steadily filling his six-pound creel from that +unlikely stream, is like watching Sargent paint a portrait. R. weighs +two hundred and ten. Twenty years ago he was a famous amateur pitcher, +and among his present avocations are violin playing, which is good for +the wrist, taxidermy, which is good for the eye, and shooting woodcock, +which before the days of the new Nature Study used to be thought good +for the whole man. R. began as a fly-fisherman, but by dint of passing +his summers near brooks where fly-fishing is impossible, he has become +a stout-hearted apologist for the worm. His apparatus is most singular. +It consists of a very long, cheap rod, stout enough to smash through +bushes, and with the stiffest tip obtainable. The lower end of the +butt, below the reel, fits into the socket of a huge extra butt of +bamboo, which R. carries unconcernedly. To reach a distant hole, or to +fish the lower end of a ripple, R. simply locks his reel, slips on the +extra butt, and there is a fourteen-foot rod ready for action. He +fishes with a line unbelievably short, and a Kendal hook far too big; +and when a trout jumps for that hook, R. wastes no time in manoeuvring +for position. The unlucky fish is simply "derricked,"—to borrow a word +from Theodore, most saturnine and profane of Moosehead guides. +<br><br> +"Shall I play him awhile?" shouted an excited sportsman to Theodore, +after hooking his first big trout. +<br><br> +"——no!" growled Theodore in disgust. "Just derrick him right into the +canoe!" A heroic method, surely; though it once cost me the best +square-tail I ever hooked, for Theodore had forgotten the landing-net, +and the gut broke in his fingers as he tried to swing the fish aboard. +But with these lively quarter-pounders of the Taylor Brook, derricking +is a safer procedure. Indeed, I have sat dejectedly on the far end of a +log, after fishing the hole under it in vain, and seen the mighty R. +wade downstream close behind me, adjust that comical extra butt, and +jerk a couple of half-pound trout from under the very log on which I +was sitting. His device on this occasion, as I well remember, was to +pass his hook but once through the middle of a big worm, let the worm +sink to the bottom, and crawl along it at his leisure. The trout could +not resist. +<br><br> +Once, and once only, have I come near equaling R.'s record, and the way +he beat me then is the justification for a whole philosophy of +worm-fishing. We were on this very Taylor Brook, and at five in the +afternoon both baskets were two thirds full. By count I had just one +more fish than he. It was raining hard. "You fish down through the +alders," said R. magnanimously. "I 'll cut across and wait for you at +the sawmill. I don't want to get any wetter, on account of my +rheumatism." +<br><br> +This was rather barefaced kindness,—for whose rheumatism was ever the +worse for another hour's fishing? But I weakly accepted it. I coveted +three or four good trout to top off with,—that was all. So I tied on a +couple of flies, and began to fish the alders, wading waist deep in the +rapidly rising water, down the long green tunnel under the curving +boughs. The brook fairly smoked with the rain, by this time, but when +did one fail to get at least three or four trout out of this best half +mile of the lower brook? Yet I had no luck I tried one fly after +another, and then, as a forlorn hope,—though it sometimes has a magic +of its own,—I combined a brown hackle for the tail fly with a twisting +worm on the dropper. Not a rise! I thought of E. sitting patiently in +the saw mill, and I fished more conscientiously than ever.</p> +<p class="quote">"Venture as warily, use the same skill, +<br>Do your best, whether winning or losing it, +<br>If you choose to play!—is my principle."</p> +<p>Even those lines, which by some subtle telepathy of the trout brook +murmur themselves over and over to me in the waning hours of an unlucky +day, brought now no consolation. There was simply not one fish to be +had, to any fly in the book, out of that long, drenching, darkening +tunnel. At last I climbed out of the brook, by the bridge. R. was +sitting on the fence, his neck and ears carefully turtled under his +coat collar, the smoke rising and the rain dripping from the inverted +bowl of his pipe. He did not seem to be worrying about his rheumatism. +<br><br> +"What luck?" he asked. +<br><br> +"None at all," I answered morosely. "Sorry to keep you waiting." +<br><br> +"That's all right," remarked R. "What do you think I 've been doing? I +'ve been fishing out of the saw-mill window just to kill time. There +was a patch of floating sawdust there,—kind of unlikely place for +trout, anyway,—but I thought I'd put on a worm and let him crawl +around a little." He opened his creel as he spoke. "But I did n't look +for a pair of 'em," he added. And there, on top of his smaller fish, +were as pretty a pair of three-quarter-pound brook trout as were ever +basketed. +<br><br> +"I 'm afraid you got pretty wet," said R. kindly. +<br><br> +"I don't mind that," I replied. And I didn't. What I minded was the +thought of an hour's vain wading in that roaring stream, whipping it +with fly after fly, while R., the foreordained fisherman, was sitting +comfortably in a sawmill, and derricking that pair of +three-quarter-pounders in through the window! I had ventured more +warily than he, and used, if not the same skill, at least the best +skill at my command. My conscience was clear, but so was his; and he +had had the drier skin and the greater magnanimity and the biggest +fish besides. There is much to be said, in a world like ours, for +taking the world as you find it and for fishing with a worm. +<br><br> +One's memories of such fishing, however agreeable they may be, are not +to be identified with a defense of the practice. Yet, after all, the +most effective defense of worm-fishing is the concrete recollection of +some brook that could be fished best or only in that way, or the image +of a particular trout that yielded to the temptation of an angleworm +after you had flicked fly after fly over him in vain. Indeed, half the +zest of brook fishing is in your campaign for "individuals,"—as the +Salvation Army workers say,—not merely for a basketful of fish qua +fish, but for a series of individual trout which your instinct tells +you ought to lurk under that log or be hovering in that ripple. How to +get him, by some sportsmanlike process, is the question. If he will +rise to some fly in your book, few fishermen will deny that the fly is +the more pleasurable weapon. Dainty, luring, beautiful toy, light as +thistle-down, falling where you will it to fall, holding when the +leader tightens and sings like the string of a violin, the artificial +fly represents the poetry of angling. Given the gleam of early morning +on some wide water, a heavy trout breaking the surface as he curves and +plunges, with the fly holding well, with the right sort of rod in your +fingers, and the right man in the other end of the canoe, and you +perceive how easy is that Emersonian trick of making the pomp of +emperors ridiculous. +<br><br> +But angling's honest prose, as represented by the lowly worm, has also +its exalted moments. "The last fish I caught was with a worm," says the +honest Walton, and so say I. It was the last evening of last August. +The dusk was settling deep upon a tiny meadow, scarcely ten rods from +end to end. The rank bog grass, already drenched with dew, bent over +the narrow, deep little brook so closely that it could not be fished +except with a double-shotted, baited hook, dropped delicately between +the heads of the long grasses. Underneath this canopy the trout were +feeding, taking the hook with a straight downward tug, as they made for +the hidden bank. It was already twilight when I began, and before I +reached the black belt of woods that separated the meadow from the +lake, the swift darkness of the North Country made it impossible to see +the hook. A short half hour's fishing only, and behold nearly twenty +good trout derricked into a basket until then sadly empty. Your +rigorous fly-fisherman would have passed that grass-hidden brook in +disdain, but it proved a treasure for the humble. Here, indeed, there +was no question of individually-minded fish, but simply a neglected +brook, full of trout which could be reached with the baited hook only. +In more open brook-fishing it is always a fascinating problem to decide +how to fish a favorite pool or ripple, for much depends upon the hour +of the day, the light, the height of water, the precise period of the +spring or summer. But after one has decided upon the best theoretical +procedure, how often the stupid trout prefers some other plan! And when +you have missed a fish that you counted upon landing, what solid +satisfaction is still possible for you, if you are philosopher enough +to sit down then and there, eat your lunch, smoke a meditative pipe, +and devise a new campaign against that particular fish! To get another +rise from him after lunch is a triumph of diplomacy, to land him is +nothing short of statesmanship. For sometimes he will jump furiously at +a fly, for very devilishness, without ever meaning to take it, and +then, wearying suddenly of his gymnastics, he will snatch sulkily at a +grasshopper, beetle, or worm. Trout feed upon an extraordinary variety +of crawling things, as all fishermen know who practice the useful habit +of opening the first two or three fish they catch, to see what food is +that day the favorite. But here, as elsewhere in this world, the best +things lie nearest, and there is no bait so killing, week in and week +out, as your plain garden or golf-green angleworm. +<br><br> +Walton's list of possible worms is impressive, and his directions for +placing them upon the hook have the placid completeness that belonged +to his character. Yet in such matters a little nonconformity may be +encouraged. No two men or boys dig bait in quite the same way, though +all share, no doubt, the singular elation which gilds that grimy +occupation with the spirit of romance. The mind is really occupied, not +with the wriggling red creatures in the lumps of earth, but with the +stout fish which each worm may capture, just as a saint might rejoice +in the squalor of this world as a preparation for the glories of the +world to come. Nor do any two experienced fishermen hold quite the same +theory as to the best mode of baiting the hook. There are a hundred +ways, each of them good. As to the best hook for worm-fishing, you will +find dicta in every catalogue of fishing tackle, but size and shape and +tempering are qualities that should vary with the brook, the season, +and the fisherman. Should one use a three-foot leader, or none at all? +Whose rods are best for bait-fishing, granted that all of them should +be stiff enough in the tip to lift a good fish by dead strain from a +tangle of brush or logs? Such questions, like those pertaining to the +boots or coat which one should wear, the style of bait-box one should +carry, or the brand of tobacco best suited for smoking in the wind, are +topics for unending discussion among the serious minded around the +camp-fire. Much edification is in them, and yet they are but prudential +maxims after all. They are mere moralities of the Franklin or +Chesterfield variety, counsels of worldly wisdom, but they leave the +soul untouched. A man may have them at his finger's ends and be no +better fisherman at bottom; or he may, like R., ignore most of the +admitted rules and come home with a full basket. It is a sufficient +defense of fishing with a worm to pronounce the truism that no man is a +<i>complete</i> angler until he has mastered all the modes of angling. +Lovely streams, lonely and enticing, but impossible to fish with a fly, +await the fisherman who is not too proud to use, with a man's skill, +the same unpretentious tackle which he began with as a boy. +<br><br><br>But ah, to fish with a worm, and + then not catch your fish! To fail with +a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience +faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of +Results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's +work is done. It is a plea for Compromise, for cutting the coat +according to the cloth, for taking the world as it actually is. The +fly-fisherman is a natural Foe of Compromise. He throws to the trout a +certain kind of lure; an they will take it, so; if not, adieu. He knows +no middle path.</p> +<p class="quote">"This high man, aiming at a million, +<br>Misses an unit."</p> +<p>The raptures and the tragedies of consistency are his. He is a scorner +of the ground. All honor to him! When he comes back at nightfall and +says happily, "I have never cast a line more perfectly than I have +to-day," it is almost indecent to peek into his creel. It is like +rating Colonel Newcome by his bank account. +<br><br> +But the worm-fisherman is no such proud and isolated soul. He is a "low +man" rather than a high one; he honestly cares what his friends will +think when they look into his basket to see what he has to show for his +day's sport. He watches the Foe of Compromise men go stumbling forward +and superbly falling, while he, with less inflexible courage, manages +to keep his feet. He wants to score, and not merely to give a pretty +exhibition of base-running. At the Harvard-Yale football game of 1903 +the Harvard team showed superior strength in rushing the ball; they +carried it almost to the Yale goal line repeatedly, but they could not, +for some reason, take it over. In the instant of absolute need, the +Yale line held, and when the Yale team had to score in order to win, +they scored. As the crowd streamed out of the Stadium, a veteran +Harvard alumnus said: "This news will cause great sorrow in one home I +know of, until they learn by to-morrow's papers that the Harvard team +<i>acquitted itself creditably</i>." Exactly. Given one team bent upon +acquitting itself creditably, and another team determined to win, which +will be victorious? The stay-at-homes on the Yale campus that day were +not curious to know whether their team was acquitting itself +creditably, but whether it was winning the game. Every other question +than that was to those young Philistines merely a fine-spun +irrelevance. They took the Cash and let the Credit go. +<br><br> +There is much to be said, no doubt, for the Harvard veteran's point of +view. The proper kind of credit may be a better asset for eleven boys +than any championship; and to fish a bit of water consistently and +skillfully, with your best flies and in your best manner, is perhaps +achievement enough. So says the Foe of Compromise, at least. But the +Yale spirit will be prying into the basket in search of fish; it +prefers concrete results. If all men are by nature either Platonists or +Aristotelians, fly-fishermen or worm-fishermen, how difficult it is for +us to do one another justice! Differing in mind, in aim and method, how +shall we say infallibly that this man or that is wrong? To fail with +Plato for companion may be better than to succeed with Aristotle. But +one thing is perfectly clear: there is no warrant for Compromise but in +Success. Use a worm if you will, but you must have fish to show for it, +if you would escape the finger of scorn. If you find yourself camping +by an unknown brook, and are deputed to catch the necessary trout for +breakfast, it is wiser to choose the surest bait. The crackle of the +fish in the frying-pan will atone for any theoretical defect in your +method. But to choose the surest bait, and then to bring back no fish, +is unforgivable. Forsake Plato if you must,—but you may do so only at +the price of justifying yourself in the terms of Aristotelian +arithmetic. The college president who abandoned his college in order to +run a cotton mill was free to make his own choice of a calling; but he +was never pardoned for bankrupting the mill. If one is bound to be a +low man rather than an impractical idealist, he should at least make +sure of his vulgar success. +<br><br> +Is all this but a disguised defense of pot-hunting? No. There is no +possible defense of pot-hunting, whether it be upon a trout brook or in +the stock market. Against fish or men, one should play the game fairly. +Yet for that matter some of the most skillful fly-fishermen I have +known were pot-hunters at heart, and some of the most prosaic-looking +merchants were idealists compared to whom Shelley was but a dreaming +boy. All depends upon the spirit with which one makes his venture. I +recall a boy of five who gravely watched his father tramp off after +rabbits,—gun on shoulder and beagle in leash. Thereupon he shouldered +a wooden sword, and dragging his reluctant black kitten by a string, +sallied forth upon the dusty Vermont road "to get a lion for +breakfast." That is the true sporting temper! Let there be but a fine +idealism in the quest, and the particular object is unessential. "A +true fisherman's happiness," says Mr. Cleveland, "is not dependent upon +his luck." It depends upon his heart. +<br><br> +No doubt all amateur fishing is but "play,"—as the psychologists +soberly term it: not a necessary, but a freely assumed activity, born +of surplusage of vitality. Nobody, not even a carpenter wearied of his +job, has to go fishing unless he wants to. He may indeed find himself +breakfast-less in camp, and obliged to betake himself to the +brook,—but then he need not have gone into the woods at all. Yet if +he does decide to fish, let him</p> +<p class="quote">"Venture as warily, use the same skill, +<br>Do his best, ..."</p> +<p> +whatever variety of tackle he may choose. He can be a whole-souled +sportsman with the poorest equipment, or a mean "trout-hog" with the +most elaborate. +<br><br> +Only, in the name of gentle Izaak himself, let him be a <i>complete</i> +angler; and let the man be a passionate amateur of all the arts of +life, despising none of them, and using all of them for his soul's good +and for the joy of his fellows. If he be, so to speak, but a +worm-fisherman,—a follower of humble occupations, and pledged to +unromantic duties,—let him still thrill with the pleasures of the true +sportsman. To make the most of dull hours, to make the best of dull +people, to like a poor jest better than none, to wear the threadbare +coat like a gentleman, to be outvoted with a smile, to hitch your wagon +to the old horse if no star is handy,—this is the wholesome philosophy +taught by fishing with a worm. The fun of it depends upon the heart. +There may be as much zest in saving as in spending, in working for +small wages as for great, in avoiding the snapshots of publicity as in +being invariably first "among those present." But a man should be +honest. If he catches most of his fish with a worm, secures the larger +portion of his success by commonplace industry, let him glory in it, +for this, too, is part of the great game. Yet he ought not in that case +to pose as a fly-fisherman only,—to carry himself as one aware of the +immortalizing camera,—to pretend that life is easy, if one but knows +how to drop a fly into the right ripple. For life is not easy, after +all is said. It is a long brook to fish, and it needs a stout heart and +a wise patience. All the flies there are in the book, and all the bait +that can be carried in the box, are likely to be needed ere the day is +over. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Fishing with a Worm + + +Author: Bliss Perry + + + +Release Date: July 27, 2005 [eBook #16369] +[Last updated: September 25, 2020] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FISHING WITH A WORM*** + + +E-text prepared by Michael Gray (Lost_Gamer@comcast.net) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 16369-h.htm or 16369-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/3/6/16369/16369-h/16369-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/3/6/16369/16369-h.zip) + + + + + +FISHING WITH A WORM + +by + +BLISS PERRY + +Boston and New York +Houghton Mifflin Company + +MDCCCCXVI + + + + + + +FISHING WITH A WORM + + "The last fish I caught was with a worm."--IZAAK WALTON. + +A defective logic is the born fisherman's portion. He is a pattern of +inconsistency. He does the things which he ought not to do, and he +leaves undone the things which other people think he ought to do. He +observes the wind when he should be sowing, and he regards the clouds, +with temptation tugging familiarly at his heartstrings, when he might +be grasping the useful sickle. It is a wonder that there is so much +health in him. A sorrowing political economist remarked to me in early +boyhood, as a jolly red-bearded neighbor, followed by an abnormally fat +dog, sauntered past us for his nooning: "That man is the best carpenter +in town, but he will leave the most important job whenever he wants to +go fishing." I stared at the sinful carpenter, who swung along +leisurely in the May sunshine, keeping just ahead of his dog. To leave +one's job in order to go fishing! How illogical! + +Years bring the reconciling mind. The world grows big enough to include +within its scheme both the instructive political economist and the +truant mechanic. But that trick of truly logical behavior seems harder +to the man than to the child. For example, I climbed up to my den under +the eaves last night--a sour, black sea-fog lying all about, and the +December sleet crackling against the window-panes--in order to varnish +a certain fly-rod. Now rods ought to be put in order in September, when +the fishing closes, or else in April, when it opens. To varnish a rod +in December proves that one possesses either a dilatory or a childishly +anticipatory mind. But before uncorking the varnish bottle, it occurred +to me to examine a dog-eared, water-stained fly-book, to guard against +the ravages of possible moths. This interlude proved fatal to the +varnishing. A half hour went happily by in rearranging the flies. Then, +with a fisherman's lack of sequence, as I picked out here and there a +plain snell-hook from the gaudy feathered ones, I said to myself with a +generous glow at the heart: "Fly-fishing has had enough sacred poets +celebrating it already. Is n't there a good deal to be said, after all, +for fishing with a worm?" + +Could there be a more illogical proceeding? And here follows the +treatise,--a Defense of Results, an Apology for Opportunism,--conceived +in agreeable procrastination, devoted to the praise of the +inconsequential angleworm, and dedicated to a childish memory of a +whistling carpenter and his fat dog. + +Let us face the worst at the very beginning. It shall be a shameless +example of fishing under conditions that make the fly a mockery. Take +the Taylor Brook, "between the roads," on the headwaters of the +Lamoille. The place is a jungle. The swamp maples and cedars were +felled a generation ago, and the tops were trimmed into the brook. The +alders and moosewood are higher than your head; on every tiny knoll the +fir balsams have gained a footing, and creep down, impenetrable, to the +edge of the water. In the open spaces the Joe-Pye weed swarms. In two +minutes after leaving the upper road you have scared a mink or a +rabbit, and you have probably lost the brook. Listen! It is only a +gurgle here, droning along, smooth and dark, under the tangle of +cedar-tops and the shadow of the balsams. Follow the sound cautiously. +There, beyond the Joe-Pye weed, and between the stump and the cedar-top, +is a hand's breadth of black water. Fly-casting is impossible in this +maze of dead and living branches. Shorten your line to two feet, or even +less, bait your hook with a worm, and drop it gingerly into that +gurgling crevice of water. Before it has sunk six inches, if there is +not one of those black-backed, orange-bellied, Taylor Brook trout +fighting with it, something is wrong with your worm or with you. For +the trout are always there, sheltered by the brushwood that makes this +half mile of fishing "not worth while." Below the lower road the Taylor +Brook becomes uncertain water. For half a mile it yields only +fingerlings, for no explainable reason; then there are two miles of +clean fishing through the deep woods, where the branches are so high +that you can cast a fly again if you like, and there are long pools, +where now and then a heavy fish will rise; then comes a final half mile +through the alders, where you must wade, knee to waist deep, before you +come to the bridge and the river. Glorious fishing is sometimes to be +had here,--especially if you work down the gorge at twilight, casting a +white miller until it is too dark to see. But alas, there is a +well-worn path along the brook, and often enough there are the very +footprints of the "fellow ahead of you," signs as disheartening to the +fisherman as ever were the footprints on the sand to Robinson Crusoe. + +But "between the roads" it is "too much trouble to fish;" and there +lies the salvation of the humble fisherman who disdains not to use the +crawling worm, nor, for that matter, to crawl himself, if need be, in +order to sneak under the boughs of some overhanging cedar that casts a +perpetual shadow upon the sleepy brook. Lying here at full length, with +no elbow-room to manage the rod, you must occasionally even unjoint +your tip, and fish with that, using but a dozen inches of line, and not +letting so much as your eyebrows show above the bank. Is it a becoming +attitude for a middle-aged citizen of the world? That depends upon how +the fish are biting. Holing a put looks rather ridiculous also, to the +mere observer, but it requires, like brook-fishing with a tip only, a +very delicate wrist, perfect tactile sense, and a fine disregard of +appearances. + +There are some fishermen who always fish as if they were being +photographed. The Taylor Brook "between the roads" is not for them. To +fish it at all is back-breaking, trouser-tearing work; to see it +thoroughly fished is to learn new lessons in the art of angling. To +watch R., for example, steadily filling his six-pound creel from that +unlikely stream, is like watching Sargent paint a portrait. R. weighs +two hundred and ten. Twenty years ago he was a famous amateur pitcher, +and among his present avocations are violin playing, which is good for +the wrist, taxidermy, which is good for the eye, and shooting woodcock, +which before the days of the new Nature Study used to be thought good +for the whole man. R. began as a fly-fisherman, but by dint of passing +his summers near brooks where fly-fishing is impossible, he has become +a stout-hearted apologist for the worm. His apparatus is most singular. +It consists of a very long, cheap rod, stout enough to smash through +bushes, and with the stiffest tip obtainable. The lower end of the +butt, below the reel, fits into the socket of a huge extra butt of +bamboo, which R. carries unconcernedly. To reach a distant hole, or to +fish the lower end of a ripple, R. simply locks his reel, slips on the +extra butt, and there is a fourteen-foot rod ready for action. He +fishes with a line unbelievably short, and a Kendal hook far too big; +and when a trout jumps for that hook, R. wastes no time in manoeuvring +for position. The unlucky fish is simply "derricked,"--to borrow a word +from Theodore, most saturnine and profane of Moosehead guides. + +"Shall I play him awhile?" shouted an excited sportsman to Theodore, +after hooking his first big trout. + +"----no!" growled Theodore in disgust. "Just derrick him right into the +canoe!" A heroic method, surely; though it once cost me the best +square-tail I ever hooked, for Theodore had forgotten the landing-net, +and the gut broke in his fingers as he tried to swing the fish aboard. +But with these lively quarter-pounders of the Taylor Brook, derricking +is a safer procedure. Indeed, I have sat dejectedly on the far end of a +log, after fishing the hole under it in vain, and seen the mighty R. +wade downstream close behind me, adjust that comical extra butt, and +jerk a couple of half-pound trout from under the very log on which I +was sitting. His device on this occasion, as I well remember, was to +pass his hook but once through the middle of a big worm, let the worm +sink to the bottom, and crawl along it at his leisure. The trout could +not resist. + +Once, and once only, have I come near equaling R.'s record, and the way +he beat me then is the justification for a whole philosophy of +worm-fishing. We were on this very Taylor Brook, and at five in the +afternoon both baskets were two thirds full. By count I had just one +more fish than he. It was raining hard. "You fish down through the +alders," said R. magnanimously. "I 'll cut across and wait for you at +the sawmill. I don't want to get any wetter, on account of my +rheumatism." + +This was rather barefaced kindness,--for whose rheumatism was ever the +worse for another hour's fishing? But I weakly accepted it. I coveted +three or four good trout to top off with,--that was all. So I tied on a +couple of flies, and began to fish the alders, wading waist deep in the +rapidly rising water, down the long green tunnel under the curving +boughs. The brook fairly smoked with the rain, by this time, but when +did one fail to get at least three or four trout out of this best half +mile of the lower brook? Yet I had no luck I tried one fly after +another, and then, as a forlorn hope,--though it sometimes has a magic +of its own,--I combined a brown hackle for the tail fly with a twisting +worm on the dropper. Not a rise! I thought of E. sitting patiently in +the saw mill, and I fished more conscientiously than ever. + + "Venture as warily, use the same skill, + Do your best, whether winning or losing it, + If you choose to play!--is my principle." + +Even those lines, which by some subtle telepathy of the trout brook +murmur themselves over and over to me in the waning hours of an unlucky +day, brought now no consolation. There was simply not one fish to be +had, to any fly in the book, out of that long, drenching, darkening +tunnel. At last I climbed out of the brook, by the bridge. R. was +sitting on the fence, his neck and ears carefully turtled under his +coat collar, the smoke rising and the rain dripping from the inverted +bowl of his pipe. He did not seem to be worrying about his rheumatism. + +"What luck?" he asked. + +"None at all," I answered morosely. "Sorry to keep you waiting." + +"That's all right," remarked R. "What do you think I 've been doing? I +'ve been fishing out of the saw-mill window just to kill time. There +was a patch of floating sawdust there,--kind of unlikely place for +trout, anyway,--but I thought I'd put on a worm and let him crawl +around a little." He opened his creel as he spoke. "But I did n't look +for a pair of 'em," he added. And there, on top of his smaller fish, +were as pretty a pair of three-quarter-pound brook trout as were ever +basketed. + +"I 'm afraid you got pretty wet," said R. kindly. + +"I don't mind that," I replied. And I didn't. What I minded was the +thought of an hour's vain wading in that roaring stream, whipping +it with fly after fly, while R., the foreordained fisherman, was +sitting comfortably in a sawmill, and derricking that pair of +three-quarter-pounders in through the window! I had ventured more +warily than he, and used, if not the same skill, at least the best +skill at my command. My conscience was clear, but so was his; and he +had had the drier skin and the greater magnanimity and the biggest +fish besides. There is much to be said, in a world like ours, for +taking the world as you find it and for fishing with a worm. + +One's memories of such fishing, however agreeable they may be, are not +to be identified with a defense of the practice. Yet, after all, the +most effective defense of worm-fishing is the concrete recollection of +some brook that could be fished best or only in that way, or the image +of a particular trout that yielded to the temptation of an angleworm +after you had flicked fly after fly over him in vain. Indeed, half the +zest of brook fishing is in your campaign for "individuals,"--as the +Salvation Army workers say,--not merely for a basketful of fish qua +fish, but for a series of individual trout which your instinct tells +you ought to lurk under that log or be hovering in that ripple. How to +get him, by some sportsmanlike process, is the question. If he will +rise to some fly in your book, few fishermen will deny that the fly is +the more pleasurable weapon. Dainty, luring, beautiful toy, light as +thistle-down, falling where you will it to fall, holding when the +leader tightens and sings like the string of a violin, the artificial +fly represents the poetry of angling. Given the gleam of early morning +on some wide water, a heavy trout breaking the surface as he curves and +plunges, with the fly holding well, with the right sort of rod in your +fingers, and the right man in the other end of the canoe, and you +perceive how easy is that Emersonian trick of making the pomp of +emperors ridiculous. + +But angling's honest prose, as represented by the lowly worm, has also +its exalted moments. "The last fish I caught was with a worm," says the +honest Walton, and so say I. It was the last evening of last August. +The dusk was settling deep upon a tiny meadow, scarcely ten rods from +end to end. The rank bog grass, already drenched with dew, bent over +the narrow, deep little brook so closely that it could not be fished +except with a double-shotted, baited hook, dropped delicately between +the heads of the long grasses. Underneath this canopy the trout were +feeding, taking the hook with a straight downward tug, as they made for +the hidden bank. It was already twilight when I began, and before I +reached the black belt of woods that separated the meadow from the +lake, the swift darkness of the North Country made it impossible to see +the hook. A short half hour's fishing only, and behold nearly twenty +good trout derricked into a basket until then sadly empty. Your +rigorous fly-fisherman would have passed that grass-hidden brook in +disdain, but it proved a treasure for the humble. Here, indeed, there +was no question of individually-minded fish, but simply a neglected +brook, full of trout which could be reached with the baited hook only. +In more open brook-fishing it is always a fascinating problem to decide +how to fish a favorite pool or ripple, for much depends upon the hour +of the day, the light, the height of water, the precise period of the +spring or summer. But after one has decided upon the best theoretical +procedure, how often the stupid trout prefers some other plan! And when +you have missed a fish that you counted upon landing, what solid +satisfaction is still possible for you, if you are philosopher enough +to sit down then and there, eat your lunch, smoke a meditative pipe, +and devise a new campaign against that particular fish! To get another +rise from him after lunch is a triumph of diplomacy, to land him is +nothing short of statesmanship. For sometimes he will jump furiously at +a fly, for very devilishness, without ever meaning to take it, and +then, wearying suddenly of his gymnastics, he will snatch sulkily at a +grasshopper, beetle, or worm. Trout feed upon an extraordinary variety +of crawling things, as all fishermen know who practice the useful habit +of opening the first two or three fish they catch, to see what food is +that day the favorite. But here, as elsewhere in this world, the best +things lie nearest, and there is no bait so killing, week in and week +out, as your plain garden or golf-green angleworm. + +Walton's list of possible worms is impressive, and his directions for +placing them upon the hook have the placid completeness that belonged +to his character. Yet in such matters a little nonconformity may be +encouraged. No two men or boys dig bait in quite the same way, though +all share, no doubt, the singular elation which gilds that grimy +occupation with the spirit of romance. The mind is really occupied, not +with the wriggling red creatures in the lumps of earth, but with the +stout fish which each worm may capture, just as a saint might rejoice +in the squalor of this world as a preparation for the glories of the +world to come. Nor do any two experienced fishermen hold quite the same +theory as to the best mode of baiting the hook. There are a hundred +ways, each of them good. As to the best hook for worm-fishing, you will +find dicta in every catalogue of fishing tackle, but size and shape and +tempering are qualities that should vary with the brook, the season, +and the fisherman. Should one use a three-foot leader, or none at all? +Whose rods are best for bait-fishing, granted that all of them should +be stiff enough in the tip to lift a good fish by dead strain from a +tangle of brush or logs? Such questions, like those pertaining to the +boots or coat which one should wear, the style of bait-box one should +carry, or the brand of tobacco best suited for smoking in the wind, are +topics for unending discussion among the serious minded around the +camp-fire. Much edification is in them, and yet they are but prudential +maxims after all. They are mere moralities of the Franklin or +Chesterfield variety, counsels of worldly wisdom, but they leave the +soul untouched. A man may have them at his finger's ends and be no +better fisherman at bottom; or he may, like R., ignore most of the +admitted rules and come home with a full basket. It is a sufficient +defense of fishing with a worm to pronounce the truism that no man is a +_complete_ angler until he has mastered all the modes of angling. +Lovely streams, lonely and enticing, but impossible to fish with a fly, +await the fisherman who is not too proud to use, with a man's skill, +the same unpretentious tackle which he began with as a boy. + + + +But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with +a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience +faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of +Results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's +work is done. It is a plea for Compromise, for cutting the coat +according to the cloth, for taking the world as it actually is. The +fly-fisherman is a natural Foe of Compromise. He throws to the trout a +certain kind of lure; an they will take it, so; if not, adieu. He knows +no middle path. + + "This high man, aiming at a million, + Misses an unit." + +The raptures and the tragedies of consistency are his. He is a scorner +of the ground. All honor to him! When he comes back at nightfall and +says happily, "I have never cast a line more perfectly than I have +to-day," it is almost indecent to peek into his creel. It is like +rating Colonel Newcome by his bank account. + +But the worm-fisherman is no such proud and isolated soul. He is a "low +man" rather than a high one; he honestly cares what his friends will +think when they look into his basket to see what he has to show for his +day's sport. He watches the Foe of Compromise men go stumbling forward +and superbly falling, while he, with less inflexible courage, manages +to keep his feet. He wants to score, and not merely to give a pretty +exhibition of base-running. At the Harvard-Yale football game of 1903 +the Harvard team showed superior strength in rushing the ball; they +carried it almost to the Yale goal line repeatedly, but they could not, +for some reason, take it over. In the instant of absolute need, the +Yale line held, and when the Yale team had to score in order to win, +they scored. As the crowd streamed out of the Stadium, a veteran +Harvard alumnus said: "This news will cause great sorrow in one home I +know of, until they learn by to-morrow's papers that the Harvard team +_acquitted itself creditably_." Exactly. Given one team bent upon +acquitting itself creditably, and another team determined to win, which +will be victorious? The stay-at-homes on the Yale campus that day were +not curious to know whether their team was acquitting itself +creditably, but whether it was winning the game. Every other question +than that was to those young Philistines merely a fine-spun +irrelevance. They took the Cash and let the Credit go. + +There is much to be said, no doubt, for the Harvard veteran's point of +view. The proper kind of credit may be a better asset for eleven boys +than any championship; and to fish a bit of water consistently and +skillfully, with your best flies and in your best manner, is perhaps +achievement enough. So says the Foe of Compromise, at least. But the +Yale spirit will be prying into the basket in search of fish; it +prefers concrete results. If all men are by nature either Platonists or +Aristotelians, fly-fishermen or worm-fishermen, how difficult it is for +us to do one another justice! Differing in mind, in aim and method, how +shall we say infallibly that this man or that is wrong? To fail with +Plato for companion may be better than to succeed with Aristotle. But +one thing is perfectly clear: there is no warrant for Compromise but in +Success. Use a worm if you will, but you must have fish to show for it, +if you would escape the finger of scorn. If you find yourself camping +by an unknown brook, and are deputed to catch the necessary trout for +breakfast, it is wiser to choose the surest bait. The crackle of the +fish in the frying-pan will atone for any theoretical defect in your +method. But to choose the surest bait, and then to bring back no fish, +is unforgivable. Forsake Plato if you must,--but you may do so only at +the price of justifying yourself in the terms of Aristotelian +arithmetic. The college president who abandoned his college in order to +run a cotton mill was free to make his own choice of a calling; but he +was never pardoned for bankrupting the mill. If one is bound to be a +low man rather than an impractical idealist, he should at least make +sure of his vulgar success. + +Is all this but a disguised defense of pot-hunting? No. There is no +possible defense of pot-hunting, whether it be upon a trout brook or in +the stock market. Against fish or men, one should play the game fairly. +Yet for that matter some of the most skillful fly-fishermen I have +known were pot-hunters at heart, and some of the most prosaic-looking +merchants were idealists compared to whom Shelley was but a dreaming +boy. All depends upon the spirit with which one makes his venture. I +recall a boy of five who gravely watched his father tramp off after +rabbits,--gun on shoulder and beagle in leash. Thereupon he shouldered +a wooden sword, and dragging his reluctant black kitten by a string, +sallied forth upon the dusty Vermont road "to get a lion for +breakfast." That is the true sporting temper! Let there be but a fine +idealism in the quest, and the particular object is unessential. "A +true fisherman's happiness," says Mr. Cleveland, "is not dependent upon +his luck." It depends upon his heart. + +No doubt all amateur fishing is but "play,"--as the psychologists +soberly term it: not a necessary, but a freely assumed activity, born +of surplusage of vitality. Nobody, not even a carpenter wearied of his +job, has to go fishing unless he wants to. He may indeed find himself +breakfast-less in camp, and obliged to betake himself to the +brook,--but then he need not have gone into the woods at all. Yet if +he does decide to fish, let him + + "Venture as warily, use the same skill, + Do his best, ..." + +whatever variety of tackle he may choose. He can be a whole-souled +sportsman with the poorest equipment, or a mean "trout-hog" with the +most elaborate. + +Only, in the name of gentle Izaak himself, let him be a _complete_ +angler; and let the man be a passionate amateur of all the arts of +life, despising none of them, and using all of them for his soul's good +and for the joy of his fellows. If he be, so to speak, but a +worm-fisherman,--a follower of humble occupations, and pledged to +unromantic duties,--let him still thrill with the pleasures of the true +sportsman. To make the most of dull hours, to make the best of dull +people, to like a poor jest better than none, to wear the threadbare +coat like a gentleman, to be outvoted with a smile, to hitch your wagon +to the old horse if no star is handy,--this is the wholesome philosophy +taught by fishing with a worm. The fun of it depends upon the heart. +There may be as much zest in saving as in spending, in working for +small wages as for great, in avoiding the snapshots of publicity as in +being invariably first "among those present." But a man should be +honest. If he catches most of his fish with a worm, secures the larger +portion of his success by commonplace industry, let him glory in it, +for this, too, is part of the great game. Yet he ought not in that case +to pose as a fly-fisherman only,--to carry himself as one aware of the +immortalizing camera,--to pretend that life is easy, if one but knows +how to drop a fly into the right ripple. For life is not easy, after +all is said. It is a long brook to fish, and it needs a stout heart and +a wise patience. All the flies there are in the book, and all the bait +that can be carried in the box, are likely to be needed ere the day is +over. But, like the Psalmist's "river of God," this brook is "full of +water," and there is plenty of good fishing to be had in it if one is +neither afraid nor ashamed of fishing sometimes with a worm. + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FISHING WITH A WORM*** + + +******* This file should be named 16369.txt or 16369.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/3/6/16369 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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