x FOREWORD 



expected. Anglers are proverbially opinion- 

 ated, and the writer is an angler. I beg my 

 readers to remember that the findings set down 

 in these pages are but those of one angler, true 

 for the fishing done by him. When good Dr. 

 Breck takes me to task for saying in Chapter 4 

 that trout do not leap on a slack line, asserting 

 that in his locality they do, I can only reaffirm, 

 that I have never seen them do it. In my ex- 

 perience, the rainbows only salmon trout go 

 into the air when given sufficient line. A taut 

 line will bring a speckled trout to the surface, 

 but leap he will not, unless actually pulled out of 

 the water. Which is not saying that Dr. Breck's 

 trout do not leap free of the water. This in- 

 cident illustrates the point I beg my readers to 

 bear in mind: this book contains the findings of 

 one humble follower of Izaak Walton, nothing 

 more. 



I have tried to cover the whole subject of trout 

 angling and do not want to be understood as 

 recommending some of the methods mentioned. 

 The chapter on fly tying is in nowise complete; 

 simply a suggestion, nothing more. The author 

 has had his say regarding how to fashion fuzzy 

 wuzzy lures in another series of papers. 



