Fish and Fishing 



maining so engenders many of the after ills 

 that flesh is heir to, in the shape of rheumatism, 

 neuralgia, varicose veins, and the rest of them. 

 Don't make a practice of going into cold spring 

 water at all seasons of the year. In warm 

 weather a pair of brogans and a suit of old 

 woollen thin clothes are best. For the months 

 of April, May — even June and September — Octo- 

 ber and November especially, keep your toes 

 warm. Of wading trousers, shoes, and hip boots 

 there are legion. Those imported from England 

 are excellent material and make, but so clumsy, 

 heavy, and tedious to put on and off as to be a per- 

 fect burden. To put on a pair of "life-belt wad- 

 ing trousers" a reasonably fat man has to have 

 two or three assistants, and to take them off use a 

 derrick. Mackintosh trousers with rubber feet are 



tolerably good wading boots, having heavy 

 Cklthe/ rubber soles and canvas uppers ; they have 



good qualities, as have leather brogans 

 over wading trousers. All these, however, require 

 much care, to dry and keep in order and keep 

 pliable. To my mind, nothing is so good for wad- 

 ing streams in fly-fishing as a pair of "Goodyear 

 hip boots" and a folding rubber cap with cape, 

 covering the shoulders, these to be v/orn over the 

 above-mentioned old suit of gray woollen thin 

 cloth ; the rubber cape is only used when it rains, 

 otherwise it can be kept in a snug corner of the 

 creel. In ordinary weather, the neat, small, close- 

 fitting peak cap, over which the rubber cap will 

 snugly cover, can be worn. The streams I wade 

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