174 Wet-Fly Fishing 



Angler (which is no longer published), for 

 his courteous permission to reproduce an 

 article which I contributed to that journal 

 in May, 1897, the substance of which had 

 already appeared in the columns of the 

 Fishing Gazette, of which I am now such 

 an old contributor. It may well be included 

 in my book. I named the essay 



"HOW TO LAND TROUT EXPEDITIOUS!/? WHEN 

 WADING. 



" Nearly all landing-nets used when 

 wading, are defective when in use. If my 

 object was merely to invent a landing-net 

 which was easy to carry, several of those 

 in use fill that requirement better than my 

 own. Let this point be clearly stated and 

 understood, before I go any further. 



"Nay, more; in rivers where all the 

 fishing is done dryshod from the bank, I 

 again say that some other landing-nets, 

 with slings, etc., are preferable to my own. 



" But when the river is one which 

 demands wading, and deep wading a river 

 where to wade ashore with each trout is 

 not only a loss of time, but a great dis- 

 turbance of good water then I know of no 

 arrangement so good as the following. 



