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always followed Izaak Walton's advice in fishing fine and 

 far off. My remarks in these pages are chiefly confined to 

 Trout and Greyling fishing ; and the angler must not feel 

 disappointed that I have touched so briefly on flies, and 

 only given a list of my favourite standard flies, which I 

 have proved from experience no angler should be without. 

 My old friend, Alfred Ronalds (with whom I have spent 

 many pleasant days fishing on Tal-y-llyn lake), has given 

 a full and correct account of the flies for each month, in 

 his book called "The Fly Fisher's Entomology." 



I have had considerable practice in Pike fishing, 

 but do not consider it necessary to treat on that subject 

 at all. That worthy angler, Mr. Cholmondelly Pennell, 

 in the second edition of his work on " The Habits of 

 Pike and Angling for them, with Suitable Tackle," has 

 completely and satisfactorily exhausted the subject ; and 

 I must say his buffer knot is a great boon to anglers, and 

 no salmon casting line can be depended on without it. 



I feel every confidence in saying no angler could 

 have studied the gentle craft more than I have done from 

 my youth, always testing my own inventions, to prove 

 their killing qualities, before introducing them to the 

 public. It is well known that I am the inventor of 

 Floating Flies, the Seat Basket, and the Spring Folding 

 Landing Net, which is so conveniently carried on the 

 basket strap ; also the celebrated Devil Killers, which 

 have proved so deadly that they have been prohibited on 

 many streams. I have frequently made a bet that I 

 would go to a stream and take a trout the first spin (of 

 course I knew where to try for them), and have been con- 



