The Springdale news., 1889-08-23
- - FISHING AND FLIRTING.
An English Writers sarcastic View of
 Angling Females.

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 Angling Females.
 A favorite delusion of mankind, in youth, or even in middle age, is that there is pleasure in fishing with a lady. About this let there be no error. If you do not care about catching trout, and if the lady is young and "convcniently handsome" as our Father Walton says, go fishing with her by all means In exactly ten min utes the following things will happen: First, she will ontangle your lines and flies with hers. Next, she will wind her own cast all round her and in her dress and in her hair, caught in the coils of the casting line. like Salammbo in those of her serpent. You will eX- tricate her, and hand her your rod. but long before you have disentangled her flies she will have hooked yours in the bottom of the boat You snap the line with a jerk and make a new cast. the boat meanwhile drifting on shore. You push off again and begin casting, and by some accident you hook a trout. Then the fair one perhaps screams, averts her face and calls you by number of names expressive of tender and feeling but indignant heart, or she gets wildly excited and twists the oar into your line. If the trout is firmly hooked she goes for him with the landing net, and if one thing more than another tries the human temper it is to see a woman with landing net hacking at his line. She frightens the fish away several times, and then catches the net in the bob-hy, hits the half dead trout on the nose, breaks the cast and permits him to join his relations with a piece of gut and an artificial fly in his mouth. The horror of trying to troll with women-kind. the extent to which all the many hooks of phantom min now get inextricably intertwined with her garments, ought not to be de- scribed by persons of feeling. If any one likes these recreations, let him be assured that he is no fisher, but a lover If any one who does want to fish can keep his temper in the midst of these distractions, he is no husband. but a saint. All hopes abandon ye who fish with ladies' might be writ ten over all Highland boathouses. | The one thing to do is to abandon hope of sport, and set the time care lessly, not toying with the tangles of fly hooks in Nenra's hair. Land on an island, lunch. smoke, touch the light banjo exchange sentimental con. fidences, but do not think to fish with woman in boat And then. altar all, when you come home she will mock you for not having caught anv trout. As if MT. Francis Francis ~ Mir. Thomas Tod Stoddard, or Mapl who invented barbs for hooks conld have caught trout with lady in tho boat. Her presence may have other advantages, that is matter of m; vate taste and sentiment, but to looh fishing women is simply fatal. R,, her presence in a boat on a loch is ' great lesson in the difficult art of pr;r- ming and bearing it. Fishers arc no,. warned. Angling is quite difficu,, enough, thanks to weather and tha wrriness of fish; to add the perplex. ities caused by woman is merely wan ton. On the other side, he who b,s :. woman with him on the loch has . a beautiful and charming substitute for all the other excuses in which fail. ure and incompetence find refuge ' l London News.