" A pleasant little book for anglers and lovers of 

 nature." SATURDAY REVIEW. 



BRITISH SPORTING FISHES, 



BY JOHN WATSON. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. 



From the GLOBE. 



; ' The papers it contains treat of salmon, trout, grayling, pike, perch, and 

 most fresh- water fish. There are pleasant chapters on silvers streams and 

 good practical essays on the depopulation and restocking of trout streams, 

 water and fish poachers, ephemeraj, and above all a useful article on fish 



stews." 



From the SPEAKEE. 



t; Naturalists as well as anglers will find Mr. Watson's remarks about 

 ; British Sporting Fishes ' quite worthy of their attention. The book is 

 written by a man who has mastered the wily tactics of salmon, pike, trout. 

 perch, carp, and bream, and knows how to bait a tempting hook for each 

 and all of them. The ' small fry ' of lake and river are not forgotten by 

 Mr. Watson, and two of the most interesting chapters in a lively volume 

 are devoted to roach, minnow, stickleback and other little fish." 



From the SATURDAY REVIEW. 



" A pleasant little book for anglers and lovers of nature is Mr. John 

 Watson's 'British Sporting Fishes.' All fresh-water fish that afford 

 any sort of sport are sporting fish according to the author, who finds 

 room in his delightful sketches of the life-histories and habitats of fish 

 for the smallest of small fry. the roach, the minnow, the stickleback, and 

 so forth. Mr. Watson's sketches follow a downward scale, from salmon 

 and trout to the small fry of $he pool and the brook, and all are character- 

 ized by remarkable delicacy (% observation." 



From the MORNING POST. 



" ' Sketches of British Sporting Fishes,' by John Watson, afford 

 pleasant reading interspersed with information, the result of practical 

 experience and close observation. Nor does the author confine his 

 remarks entirely to fish, but touches on such connected subjects as fish 

 poaching, some of the tricks of which he describes. The chapter on 

 grayling is written in the same easy and unpretentious style as the rest of 

 the book." 



