VI PREFACE. 



in angling literature, may be of service to readers 

 who are not versed in legal lore. 



Although the authors are most familiar with 

 the streams and lochs of Scotland, they are not 

 without the hope that what they have to say 

 may also be found useful by their brethren south 

 of the Tweed. 



EDINBURGH, April 1888. 



