HOD'S. 7 



statutes run. Wear a flannel shirt and a low- 

 crowned hat, two pairs of socks at least tinder 

 your wading stockings, and one pair over. Your 

 shoes should be made of good, sound, country 

 leather, the sole as thick as is compatible with 

 comfortable walking, and studded with an abund- 

 ance of the roughest, ugliest nails you can get 

 (wading shoes are not intended to walk on Turkey 

 carpets with) ; grease them thoroughly while wet, 

 which will prevent them becoming hard or crack- 

 ing ; but take care that the grease do not touch 

 the stockings themselves. The more flannel you 

 have about you the better ; and your waterproof 

 garments, however impervious to water, should by 

 no means be tfzr-tight : it is as bad, nay worse, to 

 be wet from within as from without. 



Rods. Of the manufacture of rods I shall say 

 nothing. I recommend the young fisherman to 

 go to a first-rate shop in London, Dublin, or 

 Edinburgh, and pay a fair price ; and I will ven- 

 ture to say that, if the desired result be not 

 obtained, the fault will not be in the tool, but 

 in the workman. For bottom-fishing, trolling, 

 and spinning, no rods in the world excel those 

 made in London. As to fly-fishing rods, opinions 

 differ. The English-made rods are generally stiff, 

 the Irish are generally the reverse; but Irish 



