PEEFACE. 



TN the following pages I propose to record some 

 of the results of my experience in the art of 

 angling, and especially in that most delightful 

 branch of the art known as fly-fishing. 



The work is a small one, though the field which 

 it covers is wide. It does not pretend, therefore, 

 to be exhaustive; its only aim is that it may be 

 found exact. It begins at the beginning. It takes 

 the angler to the river-side, puts the rod into his 

 hands, and shows him both how to fish and where 

 to fish. It treats in more or less detail of angling 

 for trout, salmon, grayling, and pike, and of the 

 various lures that are employed in different con- 

 ditions of water and at different seasons of the 

 year. 



Fly-fishing for trout, however, receives the first 



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