PREFATORY. 



As long as there are rivers, and fish in them, so 

 long there will be fishermen. The brotherhood 

 of anglers is large, and the methods they employ 

 to catch fish many and various. 



It is my intention to treat of fishing for salmon, 

 trout, and grayling only in the following pages, 

 restricting myself to the consideration of these 

 three varieties of the Salmonidae, their capture by 

 means of the artificial fly, and the natural flies 

 which form food for trout and grayling. 



Scores of books have from time to time been 

 written on matters piscatorial, and it may be said, 

 'Still they come.' I have the audacity to add yet 

 another volume to the long list of such works 

 already existing. 



Fishermen are ever ready to peruse anything 

 new in the way of fishing literature, despite the 

 enormous mass which has been and is ever 

 being published for their behoof. They are, 

 too, ever lenient and kindly disposed towards 



