When fishing is slow an amateur soon becomes tired out.

The monotonous pull on the line soon makes the arm weary, and destroys all enthusiasm.
But let the strikes begin and weariness disappears.

Some days the fish will bite for an hour, say from eleven to twelve, and then quit and not give another strike all day.

The very next day, in the same spot, one cannot get a bite until afternoon.
One of my fishermen friends once related the following: "Again and again I have heard old and experienced fishermen say that no fish can be caught in a thunder-storm.

Yet in July 1913 four boats were towed by a launch out to the Nevada side, near to Glenbrook.