The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-03-26
Time FOR GIRLS
TO GO A-FISHINC
Days When Only Men Enjoyed This
Fascinating Sport Are Now Over.
by THEODORE soHsT.)

Get out your old spring bonnet and
your dusty fly rod. Fishing time is
here! Not that speckled trout are ac-
tually rising, but think of all the work
to be done before you cast your first
fly of the season.
The days when only men had all the
fun of spring tackle cleaning are over.
No more stolen glimpses into their fly
books or anxious longings just to touch
their precious rods. These days girls,
fish girls. own rods and reels and keep
in trim their own tackle. Perhaps
they are bit new at the game and can
still learn some interesting facts from
George La Branches book, but Fish
ing Widows" have passed with the
Golf Widows
IL you have not tried the game you
cannot possibly imagine the real sport
OF fly-fishing. None of that painful
suspense of sitting in a tubby old boat
or tippy canoe, boiling hot sun, pray
Ing for bite. Much rather be a
widow" Even if the gods are "agin"
you (Which often merely means the
wrong f1y) and at the end of the lovely
spring day your creel is minus fish, it
will be filled with pictures OF beautiful
scenes along the brooks you have
waded, new ideas of color and good
ideas of where to find the Elusive beg
gars next day. You see, it's not the
same feeling of having missed the
ball on the first tee. No sinking thud-
because the best of fishermen miss
fish. Not so with the top notch golf
ers.
Naturally, the game requires study,
and it's not so easy to initiate a fly.
There are realms of literature on the
habits and actions of this particular
type OF water dweller. But, give keen
attention to an old fisherman and add
to your information by a few trips
along a winding stream, then you viii
have learned to be foxier than the fox
and happier than the lark. A know1-
edge of dry and wet flies, the habitats
of fish and the varieties of leaders are
as essential as the time table, and lots
more interesting. Just consider the del
icacy OF the whirling Dun or the Royal
Coachman and the workmanship of
fine leaders and woven silk lines COM
pared to a golf club. Well, there is no
comparison at all. These charms, not
to mention Natures contribution, make
fly Fishing peculiarly attractive and
suitable OF women.
A Few Don'ts.
Before the season opens have your
four to six ounce rod ready, your hip
boots or waders out of the storeroom,
and your tackle IN good shape. Oh!
that vitality important feminine item
clothes. Discard the idea that any
old thing will do for fishing. 1t won't
Trout are very fastidious as to color.
Good looking brown breeches, khaki
shirt, hat and Jacket are the compile
ments of a successful fisherwoman,
But keep away from brilliant tones re-
CARELESS of new styles. And don't ruin
every ones luck for miles around, by
jumping up and down and shouting
1--WE got one" regardless of the fact
that fish have no ears. The "donts"
for fishing are many and obvious.
Don't fish the whole stream the first
hour. Try a pool or:two.
Don't fish another mans pool. Be
a discoverer.
Don't cast for many-cast for one
trout.
Don't select a pretty fly-use the To-
cal charmers.
Don't tell mixer" fish stories-make
them good"
Don't use Drawn and muscle-finesse
IS the thing.
Don't let a man take your fish off
he hook. Do 1t yourself.
Don't be discourage If fish are not |
always hungry. Delicate temptations |
get them.
To be as wise as Isaac Walton one |
night have to be as old--but to know |
LII the glory OF the spring and to en-
10y a really sporty game-one must |
,nly be budding Waltonian."
Perhaps there are bigger trout In
Maine or the Adirondacks-or the |
beauties of the rainbow and Roosevelt
IAN not be touched east OF California
,ut there is a lot of fun catching nice
at one-half Founders nearer home.
Pack up and be ready when the sea-
ION begins. S...s {