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up stream all day. And, at times, he is 

 beaten from fatigue. Now, a comparatively 

 moderate wind, when blowing up stream, 

 suffices to make a very pretty ripple on the 

 surface, a ripple better in every way. First, 

 there is an absence of the fatigue con- 

 sequent upon fishing a whole day against 

 the wind, and, as one can fish with twice 

 the accuracy, precision, and delicacy, the 

 results are usually satisfactory to the angler. 



4. I have spoken already of wading, and 

 I repeat that it is well to wade, where 

 wading is fairly easy and safe ; but, in the 

 language of Shakespeare, remember this of 

 wading "It is well to have a giant's 

 strength, but it is tyrannous to use it as a 

 giant. " 



I mean this: "waders" give you the 

 " giant's strength," since a wet-fly fisher- 

 man, without his waders, is seldom very 

 successful. Only do not wade "tyranni- 

 cally." It is a common experience to find 

 men wading where they ought to be fishing. 

 And now comes a suggestion which may 

 possibly be worth consideration. 



If the angler is fishing open water, 

 and, if his comrade is likely to fish the 

 same stretch of river, yea, or even "the 

 stranger at the gates," soon afterwards ; it 



