HINTS FOR BEGINNERS. 



HINTS FOR BEGINNERS. 



THE ROD THE LINE THE CAST THE FLY- 

 THE HOOK THE BARB. 



r | ^ HE legal day on which Trout Fishing 

 J^ begins in South Devon is 2nd February, 

 and it therefore need hardly be said that, 

 given suitable weather, this is the easiest as well 

 as the earliest time a beginner can choose to 

 make his first acquaintance with the fish which 

 is perhaps destined to add a charm to his life 

 for another forty or fifty years. Often and 

 often after a mild winter trout are in actually 

 better condition in an open and sunny week of 

 February than they are in the harsh and windy 

 weather of a month later. 



Before attempting to describe trout fishing 

 from the opening of the season let me try and 

 briefly give the process in the simplest language 

 from the beginner's standpoint. Every angler 

 can skip the following pages, leaving them to 

 the man who frankly owns he does not know 

 a trout when he sees one and who has never 

 affixed a rel to a rod nor ti'ed a knot in 

 anything but a shoelace or a necktie. 



