Dr. Henshall was trained as a surgeon but gave up that calling to engage in fish culture — work that appealed more to his tastes — and his efforts along these lines were crowned with unusual success. At this writing (December, 1918) he is hale and hearty at the ripe age of 83, bearing out Dame Berners' testimony that angling assures " that your aege may be the more floure and the lenger to endure.”
Present and Future
At present fly fishing for bass is enjoying a great revival, more interest being taken in it than in many years and as the advance of civilization unfortunately destroys more trout streams and requires trout fishers to travel farther, many of them, by necessity, will turn to waters nearer home and cast their fraudulent feathers to the doughty knight in shining, green armor that " inch for inch, pound for pound, is the gamest fish that swims."
