Prefatory Introduction 



My Dear Brother Fishermen, — The two small 

 companion volumes that I had the honour and pleasure of 

 introducing to you about a year ago, have been received 

 with considerable success. I am deeply grateful to you 

 all for your kindness, and wish now to still further increase 

 my obligations in that respect. To this end I beg to 

 introduce to your, I hope, favourable consideration, the 

 present little effort of my pen, which is part 4, vol. 3, of 

 the series ; and which I entitle, "Pike and Perch Fishing." 



This book is not intended solely for the benefit of well- 

 to-do pike fishermen, who can travel far and wide for their 

 sport, and who have the very best private waters in the 

 kingdom at their disposal ; and plenty of money to pur- 

 chase any and every pike tackle and artificial that takes 

 their fancy. It is rather the working man angler, who has 

 few opportunities to wet his line in well-stocked private 

 lakes and rivers, that I am more particularly addressing in 

 the following pages. 



The latter class of angler is extremely anxious to have 

 put before him the simplest and most inexpensive method 

 that can be adopted in well-fished public waters. His 

 pockets have not much of a golden lining, and if he can 

 successfully ply his craft at an expenditure of only a few 



