INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



ON coming to revise the body of this work for a second edition, it 

 was found, as might naturally be expected in a book embracing so 

 large a field, that some errors had crept in, of commission, but yet 

 more of omission ; that some opinions with regard to fishes, unknown 

 to the writer through his own observation, quoted from others, are, as 

 verified by his own experience, incorrect ; and that some few things 

 stated as facts, when tried by the same test, are incorrect. 



To set these right in the body of the work, would have rendered it 

 necessary to reprint and re-stereotype the whole volume ; as, by the 

 insertion of new matter, the paging would have been all thrown out of 

 order, and many whole pages would have been entirely destroyed, 

 merely in order to rectify a single word. 



I have therefore judged it best to throw what new information I 

 have gained, into the form of a Supplement ; embodying therein the 

 correction of all erroneous opinions which, through want of informa- 

 tion, or misinformation, I have fallen into ; and adding farther instruc- 

 tions with regard to the implements, and the art of angling. 



On Trolling for Lake Trout, and on Fishing with the Fly, very con- 

 siderable additions will be found in this edition ; as well as a Table ex- 

 plaining the seasons, bait, &c., of the principal salt-water fishes of 

 our waters. 



I had hoped to have been able to insert some information concern- 



