PREFACE. 



It is with some misgiving that I have yielded to the 

 pressure put upon me by brother fishermen, and thus added 

 one more to the already long catalogue of angling books. 

 But this is not a fishing book of the orthodox pattern ; it 

 is a gossipy record of a sportsman's experiences. If there 

 appears an absence of connection between some of the chap- 

 ters, let me explain that many of them were written as 

 letters at various periods, to beguile the lonely evenings of 

 a solitary angler in remote fishing quarters. These articles 

 were never designed for publication in book form, but the 

 lovers of all that pertains to angling will, none the less, I 

 hope, find some entertainment in their perusal. A few of 

 them have previously appeared — in substance — in the 

 " Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News," and my 

 thanks are due to the courtesy of the proprietor of that 

 journal for his consent to their reproduction. Wherever 

 I could do so, I have given full and accurate details of the 

 places fished, and how the fishing is obtainable ; but this 

 has not been possible in the case of private waters. It has 

 also been necessary to use fictitious names, in a good many 

 instances, in order to disguise the identity of individuals. 



With these brief words of explanation and introduction, 

 I commend " Angling Holidays " to the perusal of all true 

 disciples of Isaac Walton. 



C. W. G. 



Bromley, Kent, 1896. 



