34 AN ANGLER'S BASKET. 



LADY ANGLERS. 



One of the most pleasing things of the present day is the 

 number of ladies who are taking up angling as a pastime, not 

 only from boats on lakes but also at the river side. Of course 

 there is no reason why they should not do so, or why a lady 

 should not become as expert a fly-fisher as a man. There is 

 even nothing to prevent her wading, if she is inclined to. 

 Not a few ladies have had dresses made something in the 

 style of a kilt reaching nearly to the knee, and under this 

 they wear a pair of ordinary waders. You may depend upon 

 it if there are ways by which these little difficulties can be 

 got over, a lady may be relied on to get over them. There 

 are few things she cannot do, even to sharpening a lead 

 pencil, and she will do that all right in the end if you will give 

 her plenty of time and plenty of pencils. I have seen some 

 very good trout killed from boats by ladies, and for ingenuity 

 of resource I once saw a young lady land a 5lb. grilse in her 

 umbrella, her father having neither gaff nor landing net. 

 A lady fishing on the Yorkshire Anglers' water on the 

 Eamont a year or two ago, landed three big chub in the 

 course of an hour, in addition to the smothered delight of 

 seeing her husband running half a mile at break-neck speed 

 to her assistance, under the belief that she had got a salmon. 

 The marvel of it is they do not scream like they do when 

 they see a mouse, they just behave like enthusiastic anglers, 

 kill their fish quietly, and do not go putting their names in 

 all the papers as they do in some setts. 



THE VISION OF TROUT. 



The eye of a trout is a wonderful evidence of the 

 adaptation by nature of means to ends. The very smallest 

 midge-fly that human skill can dress is often picked up by a 

 trout out of a rough tumbling stream where an angler's feet 



