PREFACE 



deavor to impose their views on the ninety-five per cent., 

 who hold other opinions speaks better for their zeal than 

 for their sense of proportion. 



But I think — and many good sportsmen all over the 

 country uphold me — that it is high time the dry-fly zealots 

 calmed down and remembered that we of the wet-fly are 

 no less careful than they that the etiquette of fly-fishing 

 should be observed in the strictest possible manner and 

 every unsportsmanlike manner of killing game fish rep- 

 robated. 



No modern writer on fly-fishing for trout could fail 

 to be indebted to such authors as Doctor David Starr 

 Jordan, Professor Barton Warren Evermann, James A. 

 Henshall, M.D., Henry P. Wells, William C. Harris or 

 Frederick M. Halford, and I take pleasure in acknowl- 

 edging it here. Among other authorities I have quoted 

 I might mention Mary Orvis Marbury, Samuel G. 

 Camp, George A. B. Dewar and Emlyn M. Gill. 



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