"Let it be seen that a love of the 'gentle art'openeth first 

 the heart, then the fly-book, and soon the stores of experience and 

 knowledge garnered up through long years, wheresoever we meet 

 a ' Brother of the Angle ' ; and that to us ' angling is an em- 

 ployment of our idle time, which is not then idly spent ' ; that 

 therein we find ' a rest to the mind, a cheerer of the spirits, a di- 

 verter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of 

 the passions, a procurer of contentedness, and that it begets habits 

 of peace and patience in chose that possess and practice it.' " 

 Thaddeus Norris. 



" Fly-fishing holds the same relation to bait-fishing that poetry 

 does to prose. Not only the fly, but every implement of the fly- 

 fisher's outfit is a materialized poem." James A.Henshall, M.D. 



i3. Bee. 14. Tomah Jo. 



15. " No Name." 16. Blue Bottle. 



17. Grasshopper. 18. Canada. 



"Between the tyro and the proficient grayling fisher there ex- 

 ists a wider gulf than is the case with the experienced and inex- 

 perienced in any other branch in the whole art of fishing. Prac- 

 tical skill and general artistic bearing are more fully exemplified 

 in fishing for grayling, than for trout and salmon, whilst upon 

 the same ground the unskilled efforts of the bungler stand at a 

 yet more glaring contrast." David Foster. 



" Hooking a large grayling, I had good evidences of his plucky 

 qualities ; the pliant rod bent as he struggled against the line, 

 curling his body around columns of water that failed to sustain 

 his grasp, and setting his great dorsal fin like ail oar backing 

 water, while we cautiously worked him in, his tender mouth re- 

 quiring rather more careful handling than would be necessary for 

 a trout ; making a spurt up stream, .he requires a yielding line, 

 but after a time he submits to be brought in, rallying for a dart 

 under the boat, or beneath a log, as an attempt is made to place 

 the lauding net under him." Professor Milner. 



