THE 



VADE-MECUM 



OP 



FLY-FISHING FOR TROUT: 



BEING 



A COMPLETE PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THAT BRANCH OF 

 THE ART Or ANGLING ; 



WITH 



PLAIN AND COPIOUS INSTRUCTIONS 



FOR 



THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FLIES. 



ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS. 



BY G. P. R. PULMAN, 



AUTHOR OF 

 " RUSTIC SKETCHES," " THE BOOK OF THE AXE," ETC. 



" The most important principle, perhaps, in life, is to have a pursuit, 



a useful one if possible, and at all events an innocent one 



Though I do not expect, like our arch-patriarch Walton, to number 

 ninety years and past, yet I hope, as long as I can enjoy, hi a vernal day, 

 the warmth and heat of the sunshine, still to haunt the streams." 



SIR H. DAVY. 



THIRD EDITION, RE-WRITTEN AND GREATLY ENLARGED. 



LONDON: 



LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 

 1851. 



