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identical. Trolling is trolling, and fly-fishing fly-fishing the 

 world over ; nor have I ever any where else met instructions 

 for both, so practical, so plain, and so replete with all that 

 can be taught by precept, and may be matured "by experi- 

 ence into perfect science, as in extracts which I here sub- 

 mit, partially altered, it is true, and adapted, where altera- 

 tion and adaptation were necessary, to the state of the art 

 piscatorial in America, but still in the main attributable 

 to the clever writer and compiler, whose nom de plume is 

 so well known as an authority on English sporting mat- 

 ters. 



The brief description of the leading American fishes, 

 which are of interest to the angler, are arranged according 

 to the best authorities, and the instructions for such modes 

 of angling as are peculiar to our waters are original, and 

 will, I hope, be found useful and authentic. 



It will be observed that I have not, in this volume, 

 entered largely into ichthyological questions, or discussions 

 concerning the natural history and breeding of fish, which 

 subjects will be found treated at large in my work on the 

 fish and fishing of the United States and British Prov- 

 inces of North America, and in other books devoted 

 wholly to the topics of natural history, and the fauna of 

 the continent. The paper on trolling for lake trout, 

 which is quoted from the pages of my work above referred 

 to, is from the pen of an excellent fisherman, who is much 

 accustomed to the sport and the waters which he describes, 

 and who kindly prepared it for the Appendix to the second 

 edition of my volume. 



