EIYEE FISH AND FISHING. 



OP the following pages, which will, I think, be found to 

 contain all that is needful, both in theory and practice for 

 the instruction of the young angler, much of that which 

 relates to tackle, implements, the most approved baits 

 and the precepts for their use, most, indeed, which is not 

 connected entirely with the varieties of fish peculiar to 

 this continent, is selected from that excellent and most 

 practical little work, Stonehenge's Manual of British Rural 

 Sports. I have no hesitation in using these extracts, since 

 although the trout, the pickerel, the perch, and indeed 

 all the fish of America, with the exception of the carp, which 

 is a direct importation, differ from the similar and similarly 

 named fish of Europe, still the method of taking them is 



