" I may, perad venture, give you some instructions that may 

 be of use even in your own rivers ; and shall bring you acquainted 

 with more flies than Father Walton has taken notice of in his 

 Complete Angler." Charles Cotton. 



"Eh, man ! what a conceit it is when ye reach a fine run on a 

 warm spring mornin', the wuds hatchin' wi' birds, an' dauds o' 

 licht noos and thans glintin' on the water ; an' the water itseP in 

 trim order, a wee doon, after a nicht's spate, and wi' a drap o' 

 porter in't, an' rowin' and bubblin' ower the big stanes, curlin' 

 into the linn and oot o't ; and you up tae the benches in a dark 

 neuk whaur the fish canna see ye ; an' than to get a lang cast in 

 the breeze that soughs in the bushes, an' see yer flee licht in the 

 verra place ye want, quiet as a midge lichts on yer nose, or a 

 bumbee on a flower o' clover." Norman McLeod, D.D. 



"Salmon fishing is confessedly the highest department in the 

 school of angling." George Dawson. 



i. Prince Wm. of Orange. 2. Butcher. 



3. Jock Scott. 4. Silver Doctor. 



6. Silver Gray. 7. Curtis. 

 5- Fairy; 



"The noblest of fish, the mighty salmon, refuses bait utterly, 

 and only with the most artistic tackle and the greatest skill can 

 he be taken ; the trout, which ranks second to the salmon, de- 

 mands an almost equal perfection of bait, and in his true season, 

 the genial days of spring and summer, scorns every allurement 

 but the tempting fly. The black bass prefers the fly, but will 

 take the trolling spoon, and even bait, at all seasons ; whereas the 

 fish of lesser station give a preference to bait, or accept it alone. 

 This order of precedence sufficiently proves what every thorough 

 sportsman will endorse that bait fishing, although an art of in- 

 tricacy and difficulty, is altogether inferior to the science of fly 

 fishing." Robert B. Roosevelt. 



