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COMPLETE FLY-FISHER, 



CHAP. I. 



Observations concerning Artificial Fly-Angling, 

 with proper Directiojis for the Angler's llodnj 

 Lines, S^c. 



THE art of artificial fiij -fishing certainly has 

 the pre-eminence over the other various 

 niethofls that are used to take fishes in the art 

 of angling, ft requires a great deal of ingenuity 

 and atiention, and the variety, which attends it, 

 makes at once both pleasant and agreeable. The 

 angler is not confined to any particular part of the 

 water in fly-fishing, but roves from one place to 

 another, trying his fortune, by throwing his flies 

 into the dif1["( rent eddies, and ihe most likelv 

 places he meets with, to make a captive of the 

 speckled trout; enjoying at the same time the 

 harmonious warblings of the numerous sons^sters 

 of the groves; beholding the diversity of the 

 prospects spread around him, and gaining that 

 health and serenity of mind, not to be purchased 

 by all the riches in the universe. The imita* 

 sions of nature, in regard to the f^ies necessar}' 

 for use; suiting the different colours so exactly 



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