The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-03

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more maligned than when it has beer
said that she could not fish. But there
is fishing and fishing.
Genuine fishing, the man who knows
says, is not fishing. but angling. The
so-called fishing is something very or
binary and common, something that
no woman would care for. The ordin-
airy so-called fisherman pays his atten-
! ton to q great many things besides
fish, and one of these is a can, and the
can is not for worms. That is what the
real fisherman who is an angler says.
But angling, All, that is something
different altogether Angling is an art,
a most delicate and bewitching art. II
requires skill, study and patience, and
it is the queen of ali sports-a rare and
delicate sport, that once to know is to
know and love always. Once an angler
is to be always an angler.
There is an increasing number of
women anglers" says the man at the
shop where they sell all the delicate pa
raphernalia of the sport. There is no
reason why woman shouldn't be fly
caster. 1t is delicate work, which she
ought to do quite as well as man.
They use the same implements with the
rod. perhaps a little shorter than a
man would use. and not quite SO heavy.
They like to have about as good quail
ity as they can have, and if their huS-
bands pay the bills they usually have
the best. I know a number of women
who have several rods, though they
have never bought any. Those hus-
bands or fathers or brothers come in
and order a nice rod sent up to them
for a present, and they pay the bills.
"A good many women fish for black
bass. They can fish for them with flies
or with bait and troll for them. Min
nows. helgramite, crawfish. crickets
and frogs legs all make good bait. A
great many women fish at Greenwood
lake. There they have a guide, and he
expects to attend to the bait. He sits
in the middle of the boat. and the
anglers at either end swing their lines
around to him to take off the fish and
put on fresh bait. / presume more
women fish for bass than anything else.
They have to go into the water and
wade for trout. For some of those who
do we have made wading trousers The
women have short skirts which they
tuck down into these, but they are
rather clumsy. Women do a good many
things that they would not have done
before they began to ride the bicycle.
You can go up in Maine where you
can fish for trout from boat, but most
ladies go to Greenwood lake.
COST OF AN OUTFIT.
What would be the cost of an out
fit? A woman could get a pretty good
one for from about s13 to $14. There
would be a difference in the bait rod
for bass and the rod for trout fishing,
but the price would be about the same.
The rod would be, say. $3.50; reel, 50;
line. $1.50; leaders, IS cents; hooks, two
dozen, so cents; flies, two dozen, 81
That would be s14.S5. A pair of wading
boots would cost from S. to SO. Then
there are fly hooks and tackle cases.
The latter range in price from 81 to $40,
and the latter from soc to $40. 1t is not
necessary to have a tackle case, but it
is a good thing, for when you want to
start off you have your tackle alto
gether and don't have to hunt all over
the house for it"
But you will find a good many
women who will go into the water for
their angling" continues the fisherman
who angles. You will find them on
both branches of the Navesink, on the
and on the Beaverkill. A
great many women go fishing with
their husbands. I have seen three
women with three men alternating, a
man and then a woman, walking six
feet abreast down the Beaverkill, anc
those women could fish, too.
Before July l, while the water is
cold. a woman needs high boots; after
that she had better put on a bathing
suit for she may get thoroughly wet,
and it will not do her any harm. She
will find she is better for it. But she
must wear quiet colors in dressing for
fish and a dark hat or she will brighten
he fish.
II did see one woman once who wore
white sailor hat and n pretty little
nautical suit, just the effect of one a !
sailor would wear when he was out in
lis Sunday best She was a handsome +
woman and looked well in it. She wore
high boots of Russian leather, which 4
must have been made waterproof in
ome way. She carried a silver-mOunt- /
ID rod that probably cost $50. an alum
mum reel that would be $50, an alligator .
kin fly book that. with its contents, I
would cost not less than $40. and fine, /
lose woven willow creel with Russian |
Gather straps and plated snaps. With .
Ter white hat, jaunty little short skirt
nd fine outfit, she looked well, but she
wasn't an aneler-she didn't know any
hing about fishing.
"A certain California woman trout
sher has served as a model for every
hing that is satisfactory in the fisher
roman's dress for a number of years.
Ter picture was the result of a contest
n amateur photography in The Forest
nd Stream, and it practically made
er immortal in the line in which she
osed. She wears a skirt that is short
\ itself, and then looped here and
here until it reaches about to her
nees over extra-length fishing boots.
Ter waist bodice is a loose, wooden jer-
ey. the sleeves snug up to the elbow,
nd from there to the shoulder very
)ose. There is a little turnover collar,
ne waist blOuses over the band; there
re loose-wristed gloves that come up
yer the sleeves land little. fancy hat
cry much like an ordinary street hat,
-hich is pretty, but it would seem, it
hight be improved, as 1t has not a
appearance. The fisher
oman carries her game basket slung
YER one shoulder. and, of course, car
es her rod, and, as a genuine woman
touch to the costume, wears little
latelaine bag at her waist.
A NEW YORK WOMAN.
But New York has woman angler,
woman who would rather throw fly 5
n a trout than eat, and who, when >
lie is engrossed in the sport, forgets {
lere is such a thing as meal time, ;
lyway. She has a fishing suit which I
lie originated herself, and which she
is never found needed improvement. {
ut she is a born fisherwoman and has {
instinct If there is such {
thing. She began fishing in France I
hen she was nothing but a baby. She {
fishing now in America, and she {
,pes to end her life here, still fishing. :
} see her is to see really enthusiast 6
2 angler.
Il love it passionately," she says. Il I
mt care for clothes: I don't care
= jewelry; you may take away any Z
ing 1 have, but l won't give UP my /
hing. The love of fishing seems to t
I'VE been born in me. My father new 7
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