112 THE SCIENCE OF DRY FLY FISHING. 



West and North of Ireland, free fishing can be obtained, 

 and good fishing easily acquired at a small cost. Norway, 

 Germany (especially in Baden), France, Spain, the Austrian 

 Tyrol, Sweden, etc., will all repay a visit ; in many places 

 exceptionally good fishing will be found. If I have any 

 favourites abroad they are the chalk streams of Normandy, or 

 those of the Black Forest. 



On the Bad Boll Hotel Waters on the Wutach one 

 finds the loveliest scenery, a most comfortable hotel, and 

 some forty miles of excellent trout fishing. On my last 

 visit to this charming place, my fishing diary recorded 

 127 trout between May i6th and May 28th, 1897. 



But I must, after all, give my adherence to England 

 and the British Isles ; for many years to come most 

 excellent and cheap trout fishing will be obtainable in this 

 dear old motherland, to those who know where to go ; and while 

 they will find it will cost them less than going abroad, they will 

 be spending their money among their own people, the trout 

 will be as game, as beautiful and as plentiful as in any 

 other country, and the scenery and accommodation will be 

 in most cases better. If, however, my reader should fail to 

 discover any suitable place in which to fish, I shall be 

 delighted to assist him from the knowledge gained by my 

 personal experience. (See page xvii.). 



