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up stream all day. And, at times, he is 

 beaten from fatigue. Now, a comparatively 

 moderate wind, when blowing up stream, 

 suffices to make a very pretty ripple on the 

 surface, a ripple better in every way. First, 

 there is an absence of the fatigue con- 

 sequent upon fishing a whole day against 

 the wind, and, as one can fish with twice 

 the accuracy, precision, and delicacy, the 

 results are usually satisfactory to the angler. 



4. I have spoken already of wading, and 

 I repeat that it is well to wade, where 

 wading is fairly easy and safe ; but, in the 

 language of Shakespeare, remember this of 

 wading "It is well to have a giant's 

 strength, but it is tyrannous to use it as a 

 giant. " 



I mean this: "waders" give you the 

 "giant's strength," since a wet-fly fisher- 

 man, without his waders, is seldom very 

 successful. Only do not wade "tyranni- 

 cally." It is a common experience to find 

 men wading where they ought to be fishing. 

 And now comes. a suggestion which may 

 possibly be worth consideration. 



If the angler is fisEing open water, 

 and, if his comrade is likely to fish the 

 same stretch of river, yea, or even " the 

 stranger at the gates," soon afterwards; it 



