4 TROUT LORE 



but I caught only a lesson, a lesson however that 

 was to stand me in good stead in after years. 

 In time I learned how to angle for speckled 

 trout, though as I have already said, not even 

 yet do- 1 know it all. 



Just how to organize my "Trout Lore" is 

 something of a problem. It would be a pleasure 

 to simply set down the facts as they come to 

 mind, or as I have them recorded in my score 

 and more of note books, but such heterogeneous, 

 unrelated facts are of little value; therefore I 

 must caption my papers in such a way as to make 

 them intelligible to the angler, and more im- 

 portant, get-at-able. A vast amount of valu- 

 able information is obscured in the many words 

 of the average book upon angling, lost to the 

 reader because un-get-at-able. Who has not 

 said to himself, "Now where did I read some- 

 thing regarding the influence of weather upon 

 trout fishing?" or, "Where was it that fellow 

 said he had found the Silver Doctor a good fly 

 in dark water?" Now, it shall be my purpose 

 to caption these chapters in such way that the 

 particular information you desire will be easily 

 found. Naturally, following out such a scheme 

 there will be much repetition, but each chapter 

 will be complete in itself and, I hope, reasonably 



