FISHING FOR PLEASURE 

 AND CATCHING IT 



CHAPTER I 



MAY FLY FISHING IN HEREFORDSHIRE 

 IN 1903 



"We plunge and strive from spot to spot, 



But not a fish will rise ; 

 In wonderment at our ill lot, 



Turn up our wistful eyes." 



BLAKEY, Fourteenth Century Fishing. 



June, 1903. 



HAVE a great affection for the 

 beautiful county of Hereford, for 

 my earliest and happiest days were 

 spent in it. It is a county of fine 

 woodland scenery, of charming meadows and 

 pine-clad hills, and it is intersected by many a 

 fine river. In the leafy month of June it is 

 perhaps at its best; then Nature has but newly 

 put on her varied garments of green, the fields 



