CHAPTER II. 



EQUIPMENT. 



will be a short chapter, as tastes differ 

 so very much, that many things we might 

 say would most probably be disregarded. But 

 as to some matters, there can only be one 

 opinion. Do not fish in light-coloured clothes ; 

 and, should the weather be wet, do not wear 

 a white macintosh coat. We believe that the 

 eyesight of a fish is the keenest sense which 

 it possesses ; and, more especially should the 

 day be clear and fine, there is no doubt that 

 an unusual white object within range of its 

 vision will make a fish, which might otherwise 

 have taken the fly, turn tail and flee. A good 

 deal of what we hear spoken of as fish " rising 

 short," proceeds from this cause. No doubt 

 they rise short sometimes on seeing the angler 



