VI PREFACE. 



some of pastimes one that will keep 

 those who pursue it in good health and 

 afford them an abiding pleasure that will 

 be as fresh at sixty as sixteen. 



It only remains to state that what has 

 been said in these pages as to northern 

 waters applies equally to all streams where 

 trout abound, whether in the south, east, 

 or west of our country. 



RYTON-ON-TYNE. 



