The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-03
SOME FEMININE ISAAk WALTONS.
There Are Many Of Them Who Enjoy the Delicate Sport
of Angling -An Example.

luck in one way in getting the biggest
fiSh-not the quantity but the quality.
But that is because / have patience.
Women can do better in that way, for
they have more patience. A man will
throw his fly and wait a little while,
and then he says that the fish will not
bite, and he goes away, when perhaps,
If he waits second longer, he gets the
fish.
1T seemed to come to me by :ntui-
4 ton, how TO dress for fishing and /
have worn from the first the same kind
of costume. Flannel, which most peo-
pie wear. is too heavy, and l took .lue
jean. I made first pair of boomers
of some light coiored cotton material
the blue jean was too heavy for that I
made them very full around the waist.
and full in every way, coming about to
the knees and rot gathered in.
The skirt. which is also made full.
is of the blue jean, and for waist
wear a little thin blouse, with q light
undervest u-der it. L don't wear fan
mel at all. and 1 never wear a
jacket. l wear high rubber boots,
and you are supposed to stand in
shallow water and fish in deeper, but
VIXEN the fish pulls and you get inter-
ested you forget everything until you
find yourself up to your shoulders in
water. Then the rubber boots are un-
comfortable, and are very heavy filed
with water. The best thing I ever
tried was pair of mems leather boots
with hobnails.
NEVER TAKES COLD"
81 stay in the water fishing all day
and get wet. but never take cold 1
have a cold now, but l took it coming
/ down OF the train. 1t agrees with me
/ to so into the water, and il is never
too disagreeable for me to go. 1 go
early in the spring, and I have been
! when the snow was on the ground, and
/ l have never taken cold. When men
/ have been tired out l have been quite
fresh. and when they have had to send
! for doctor, L have not suffered in
one way or another. There is a great
deal in being accustomed TO it. I do
not say that all women could do it,
there is something in the constitution,
and more in the habit.
And as far as the fishing is con-
cerned, while men have some patience,
women have great deal more. For
instance, you know certain place and
you know that there is fish there; you
see it, but you don't catch it. But you
say to yourself IF 1 don't catch it to-
day, l may catch it the next year or
the next year after 1t is having q
woman's patience to go back not one
year, but going back three, and some
times four years, and you sometimes
get" this with a little foreign idiom
the most of the time that fish,
IF you go one year in one place and
one year in another, it makes differ
ence. You must know every spot in the
place where you are fishing. 1 don't
like to go in new places because it
takes so long to learn where the trout
are. Trout have the habit, after they
get to a certain size, say from one and
a quarter to one and a half pounds, of
having a home, and you may go year
after year. and if 1t has not been caught
you will be sure that under a certain
stone you will find the same trout, and
as you return each year you look to see
if that trout is still there. You may see
the same trout for two, three, four, five
or six years, and you will know that all
the fishermen who have been there
have not caught ii. / speak now of the
big fish, the buck, which is the most
satisfactory to catch. You know other
anglers have seen him and tried for
him, and you hope you will get him,
and, perhaps. you do get him, and per-
hapS you don't.
But there is still another thing about
the brook that will make a difference.
There may have been a freshet in the
winter, AID when you come back you
will find that where it was deep before
it is now shallow. and the trout is not
III Oi0 HAeiCC, anu yOu lillQ ildo
another home on the other side of the
brook. and you are disappointed.
Fishing for striped bass is next to
trout fishing, and that and all other
kinds of fishing are all right. but there I
is 70 love like trout fishing. 1t is my
passion and my delight. 1t is because /
Of the way the trout jumps and the
way it IS wicked. and so you love it, !
One day it will jump at the fly and the (
next day it will not take it, and then ]
you must have the patience.
The fishing rod weighs from three /
and a half to four ounces and you have :
four or five rods. There are different
kinds of rods, to be used according to
the kind of weather; then there is a
bait rod and fly rod. 1 usually use
fly rod. 1 detest to fish with worms,
but 1 do once in a while-gardeE hack, !
they call worms in the country.
A ROD GETS TIRED.
81 will tell you another thing. You
have to have more than one rod, and
the reason is this: the rod gets tired
when it is used a long time. and then
it will bend and must have rest.
Am 1 fond of my rod? When l die
this one rod is going with me in my
coffin. l have this ring that I always
wear. and that is over 100 years old,
but l would sooner lose this than my
roo. love IL Win my whole heart.
have it in my will to go with me in
my coffin, and my drinking cup with
which I have found the water in so
many clear springs. You hold this rod
and I take the end of it, and you see
bend and bend it-there is a very
large fish on it now-and ii will not
break, you could catch II, IA. 16-pound
fish with this rod if you know how to
handle it Il
They call me the most faithful fish
erman on the Beaverkill, because I
nave been there ten, almost IL seasons,
and 1 am fishing at all hours. 1 say 1
am a woman, why do you not call me
l fisherwoman. but they say it is more
natural to call me a fisherman. 1t is
because 1 am fishing at all times
When the fish will not bite then
Tou have to make a study of the flies
IN the water. You watch and watch
70 see what they are, and then you try
all the flies in your book to get flies !
ike them. The reason the countryman
gets so many more fish than the city 5
nan is because the city people cannot {
tay and watch the flies on the water. ,,
rhe city people accuse the countryman
# catching the fish with snares, but
hey do not and that is my opinion,
md I am an enthusiastic angler.
THE city people cannot study the
lies morning, noon and night, as the
ountry people can. and they are lazy
nd they can give their time to it. Then
hey make their own flies of chicken
nd bird feathers. and they have the
lies that we cannot buy. They can
make them very natural because they
re watching the real flies all the time. s
mat is the reason they cate bigger