CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



NOTE vii 



ILLUSTRATIONS xiii 



I. MAY FLY FISHING IN HEREFORDSHIRE IN 



1903 i 



On the Lugg, under Dinmore Hill 

 Kingsland Game Fowls and their 

 Feathers Otter and Moorhen Swiss 

 Mountain Scenery The Gray Drake 

 begins to rise Time up ! 



II. " HAMPSHIRE DAYS" 16 



Stag - beetle and Garden Snails 

 Swallow and Pike Grasshopper and 

 Spider Enemies of the May-fly. 



III. ON THE ITHON (A SCRAMBLE IN THE 



WOODS) 26 



Rock House Hotel Seven miles of 

 " excellent " Fishing A four mile drive 

 in quest of it Found river unapproach- 

 able Bordered by a steep and impene- 

 trable Wood Various disasters. 



IV. ON THE STOUR 37 



Family Fishing Chub of 2 Ib. like 

 Silver in Solomon's Days " thought no- 

 thing of" A Dozen or more mostly above 

 3 Ib. Then came THE CHAMPION 

 CHUB A Glorious Fight, 

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