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FOREWORD 



THE delay in publishing this, the Second Edition of 

 " The Complete Science of Fly Fishing and Spinning," 

 has been due to the difficulty of obtaining the requisite 

 paper for its many plates and for the text. The careful 

 revision which the author has made will be found to 

 have increased its value to the fisherman. 



The First Edition of this work has been widely read in 

 America and in the Colonies, and the interest it has 

 created has fully justified the very kind reviews with which 

 its introduction was greeted by the Press. 



The chapter on " The Scales of the Salmonidae and the 

 Story They Tell," has undoubtedly tended to modify the 

 theories advanced somewhat hastily by those who have 

 relied on the marking of salmon scales, as affording a 

 trustworthy indication of the number of times a salmon 

 has spawned. 



In the First Edition, the author introduced to the 

 public for the first time the virtues and advantages of 

 "Muscabane" the only infallible anti-insect cream 

 prepared by Messrs. Allen & Hanbury. It is pleasing to 

 note that the use of this cream has tended very greatly 

 to the comfort and health, not only of fishermen, and of 

 our soldiers in Europe, Mesopotamia, etc., but of artists, 

 travellers, sportsmen, and those who lead an outdoor life. 



The diagrams in connection with Fly Casting and 

 Spinning have simplified, to a large extent, those difficult 

 problems which are invariably associated with the efforts 

 of the tyro. 



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