PREFACE. 



OST anglers meet with fair success 

 when the waters are dark coloured ; 

 but when the waters are clear they 

 find poor sport. This is mainly due to 

 an erroneous system of fishing, which 

 angling works already published have 

 done little to remove, and which, though its 

 effects were not so observable fifty years ago, 

 when drainage was less extensively in operation, 

 and when the streams continued large and dis- 

 coloured for some time, is not at all adapted 

 for the small clear waters of the present day. 

 It is with the view of showing how almost, if 

 not quite, as good sport may be had in clear 

 water as in coloured, that we have undertaken 

 to add another to the numerous volumes already 

 existing upon this very popular amusement. 

 It is almost unnecessary to add, that as it is 



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