With What to Get Them 



\ iceable in fly-fishing when the hook sometimes 

 l)ecomes fastened on a rock or log. The ring 

 easily releases it. 



WOMEN WHO FISH 



The women who fish are plenty, the women 



who wade are few. Yet fly-casting is an art more 



suited to women than any other mode of fishing; 



good exercise for the entire body, 



Fly=Casting active play for the mind, poetical as 



Suited to . . . 



Women well as artistic pastime, and cleanly, 



as well as the least cruel. The most 



sensitive nerves would hardly balk at unhooking 



a little artificial, feathery fly from the lips, most 



often outside the lips, of a trout. There is no 



wriggling live bait to handle, and no digging down 



the fish's gorge to extract the hook. The daintiest 



methods are pursued that should entice many 



women to the streams. The trout has no spines 



to wound the fingers in handling, and however 



big, it will not bite. With all these advantages in 



woman's favor, the day will come, I fear, when 



laws will be passed excluding all men from taking 



brook trout, and reserving them entirely for the 



women. Her most vexing problem in wading is 



that of dress — how she looks in and after leaving 



the water. The difficulty is easily solved by 



wearing ample divided skirts of very 

 [)ress'^ soft, woolly material, that will easily tuck 



inside the upper part of the waders. In 

 so doing they need not wade in deeper water than 

 two feet. After leaving the water the ample folds 

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