PEBFACE 



TO 



THE FOURTH EDITION. 



THAT A FOURTH EDITION of this work should be required 

 so soon is a sufficient proof, not only of its popularity, but 

 that it supplies the want so long felt of an efficient and 

 comprehensive work upon every branch of angling. In 

 this edition I have made large alterations, and to it I have 

 made considerable additions ; one of the plates has been 

 entirely recast, and between thirty and forty pages of fresh 

 matter have been added. In bottom-fishing there have 

 been valuable alterations and improvements, and in spin- 

 ning, trout-fishing, &c., &c., also but the largest changes 

 have been made in the salmon-fly list. This being a point 

 that nearly every salmon-fisher and every tackle-maker in 

 the kingdom is interested in, I have thought it desirable to 

 revise and renew the list of flies for all the principal rivers, 

 so as to bring it up to the present date ; this I have done 

 by communication with all the local authorities, most of 

 whom are old friends and acquaintances, who are always 

 ready to assist me when they can, and to whom I here tender 

 my warmest thanks. In some rivers wide alterations occur, 

 in others the salmon seem to have resisted the more gaudy 



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