PREFACE 



By the Author. 



WHILE our sporting instincts will be aroused by the 

 difficulties and thrilled by the triumphs of fly fishing, the 

 artistic and poetic side of our temperament will be as 

 strongly appealed to, and affected, by the surroundings of 

 the salmon rivers and trout streams on which our fly may 

 be cast. 



The salmon river will inspire the soul with the strength 

 and force of its beauty, and invigorate the body with the 

 health-giving scent of its pine forests and heather ; the trout 

 stream will charm our mind, and lull our senses into delicious 

 content, as we listen to the rippling note of its liquid harmony 

 and inhale the delicate perfume of its thousand surrounding 

 flowers. 



The pride of place as regards the very pink of Nature's 

 charms must be given to our trout streams ; the lavish 

 profusion of their summer beauty and the ambrosial essence 



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