FOREWORD 



I AM an angler, not a crass fisherman. While 

 I can say without a smack of conceit that I take 

 my share of trout, it is not the fish that calls me 

 a-field, rather the invitation of the purling 

 brooks, the woo of God's Out-o'doors. All of 

 which is more or less definitely set forth in the 

 following chapters. 



As first planned this book was to deal only 

 with "trout lore," but the task grew upon my 

 hands until it assumed the present form. Ori- 

 ginally the chapters appeared in Outdoor Life, 

 the writer preparing them with no thought of 

 book issue; but so many requests came to him to 

 have the work produced in permanent and "get- 

 at-able" form that he could do no less than com- 

 ply. The work of revising has been a labor of 

 love, even as the first writing was truly enjoy- 

 able. Few changes have been necessary, so 

 firmly grounded is the writer in his notions re- 

 garding angling for trout. 



Naturally the author has been criticized for 



some of his assertions, which was to have been 



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