Fisherette

If you are a fisherman or a “fisherette” you may write to one of the advertisers in The New Department for a fly-book.

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Introducing the Fisherette / A NEW EXPERIMENT IN WAR WORK FOR WOMEN—PLUCKY NOVA SCOTIANS TAKE TO FISH CLEANING IN OIL-SKINS AND SOU’WESTERS[…]And here is where the fisherette comes in! If women can help on the farms, in the factories, in industries of every kind, they are surely fitted to take their places by the fishermen, and if they cannot go out in dories to catch the precious sea food, they can at least have a share in handling it on shore.

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James E. Goodban, local authority on deep sea fishing, was invited by Mr. Van Dorin to join the party and under his and Mr. Van Dorin’s directions, the visiting fishermen—and fisherettes — were successful in landing a fine catch of albacore.

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But, somehow, I felt a bit self-conscious, embarrassed almost as though I had caught some young angler kissing a fisherette.

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