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mere touch, or releases the flies at the first cast or parts at 

 the first strike if by some miraculous mischance you get 

 this far with it. The leaders, a half-dozen of them, should 

 be carried, when not in actual use, in a flat, aluminum, 

 pocket-fitting box between two dampened flannel mats 

 (though not preserved this way in close season ) , so as to 

 have them thoroughly limp from being water soaked, that 

 you may more readily and more safely adjust them, for 

 break they surely will if handled in a dry state. 



The willow creel, in which the spoil of the day is deposited, 

 should be, I think, about the size of a small hand-satchel. 

 To this is fastened a leather strap, with a broad, shoulder- 

 protecting band of stout canvas. This I sling over the 

 right shoulder, allowing the creel to hang above the back 

 part of the left hip where it will least interfere with me 

 during the fight with fontinalis. 



The landing net I use is a little one of egg shape, made of 

 cane with no metal whatsoever, and it has a linen mesh 

 about ten inches in width and eighteen inches in length. 

 The handle is a trifle over one foot in length. To this I tie 

 one end of a stout but light-weight flexible and small- 

 calibred cord, or a stretch of small tube rubber, and the 

 other end of this I tie to a button on my coat under my 

 chin, throwing the net over my left shoulder to lie on my 

 back until called into service. 



The clothing should be of dark-gray wool of light weight. 

 I wear a lightly woven gray sweater under my coat when 

 the weather is cool. 



Trout Fishinu in Dey's River, Delta County, Michigan. 



