CHAPTEK III. 



ANGLER'S EQUIPMENT. 



EESS. The only advice it is necessary 

 to give the angler on this head is, not 

 to select any very gaudy colours, and 

 to avoid any approach to foppery, as trout 

 have the most thorough contempt for a 

 fop, and will not on any account allow 

 themselves to be handled with kid gloves. Nothing 

 is so completely out of place at the water-side 

 as an individual got up with all the elaboration 

 of one of " Punch's" swells. We often wonder 

 what has tempted such an one to leave off sunning 

 himself in Princes Street to astonish the in- 

 habitants of some distant stream. Seriously 

 speaking, however, gaudy colours are apt to attract 

 the notice of the trout, and are perceived by them 

 at a greater distance. Some anglers may think 

 this is being unnecessarily particular ; but on a 

 sunny day, when to escape observation the angler 

 will require to crawl up the river's bank, dress be- 

 comes a subject of some importance. Every angler 

 ought to furnish himself with a waterproof coat; 



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