6 TREATISE ON FLY-FISHING. 



My chief object however, is to furnish the 

 sportsman, who for the first time is about to wet 

 his line in the west, with a list of flies ; which, for 

 a period of twenty years, 1 have found the most 

 effective, in the Rivers of Devon and Cornwall. 

 I have no doubt, they would be equally successful 

 in Somerset, in the smaller Rivers of Wales, and 

 in some of the Irish Lakes ; but, as I cannot 

 vouch from personal experience, I must leave to 

 others the task of testing their more general 

 application. 



My remarks are restricted to Fly-Fishing ; 

 partly, because I hold this to be the most skilful 

 and pleasing of the various ways by which man 

 secures the wily fish ; and also, from the length 

 to which this paper would extend^ if I were to 

 enlarge on the numerous other devices adopted 

 to entrap the finny tribe. 



Worms, killdevils, salmon-roe, minnows, cock- 

 chafers, &c. &c. &c., are to be met with in the 

 catalogue of the fisherman's stock in trade ; and, 



