PREFACE. 



Jt 1 INDING myself unable to enjoy the pleasure 

 of angling so frequently as I have been ac- 

 customed to do 5 (in consequence of declining 

 health,) I have employed some of my leisure 

 time in writing this Work as a direction or 

 guide to the young and inexperienced angler : 

 the information it contains is such as has been 

 acquired by practice and experience in the art 

 during the last forty years in the rivers and 

 waters therein described. 



