With What to Get Them 



viceable in fly-fishing when the hook sometimes 

 becomes 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, 

 active play for the mind, poetical as 

 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 

 s ft 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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