FOREWORD 



IT may be ,well to explain, by way of 

 A brief introduction, in presenting 

 this little brochure on fresh water fish 

 and fishing to the attention of Amer- 

 ican anglers, that it is not the pur- 

 pose of the author and publishers to 

 rival any of the excellent works here- 

 tofore published on this subject, nor 

 to attempt giving anything in the 

 nature of a thorough treatise covering 

 all the many angles and points of in- 

 terest concerning the art, and the 

 various species of the finny family 

 which are pursued for sport. Able 

 as well as entertaining authors, from 

 the time of good old Izaak Walton 

 down to the present day, have done 

 justice to the subject, not only as to 

 the art of angling and the denizens of 

 brook, river and lake, but also with 

 reference to each of the. game fishes, 

 individually. 



To attempt to give a more complete 

 or comprehensive work on fresh 

 water fishing than any that has ever 

 appeared would be presumptuous and 



