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obtaining information on the subject, must often be at 

 a loss to decide which of these works to purchase. 

 I should recommend every one who requires good, 

 sound, useful and practical information on the subject, 

 to procure Blacker's book ; ' The Fly-fisher's Ento- 

 mology/ by Ronalds ; Holland's ' British Angler's 

 Manual ; ' Sir Humphrey Davy's ' Salmonia, or Days 

 of Fly-fishing ; ' and Scrope's ' Days of Salmon- 

 Fishing.' With these in his portmanteau, the fly- 

 fisher's library will be complete, whatever part of the 

 United Kingdom may be the scene of his exploits. 

 As to the accounts of the different rivers, and the best 

 fishing-stations on them, which are given in books on 

 fishing, you should never be guided by them, but 

 should rather make inquiries of your friends who are 

 fishermen, and who possess the local knowledge you 

 may be in quest of. For were you to visit some 

 of the places called fishing-stations, you would often 

 find yourself most grievously disappointed, and disco- 

 ver that you had made a long journey for nothing. 



The trout-fishing in England is generally good, in 

 Wales it is very inferior; the trout there are for the 

 most part small, and the fall of the bed of the rivers 

 is so great, that a river, even after a heavy flood, will 



