Concerning Flies 185 



First, that hitherto, we have had lots of 

 trout-fishing without having had to study 

 Entomology at all ; second, that our rivers 

 are rapid, and are not so well suited to 

 the dry fly ; and thirdly, that in England, 

 there are a far greater number of leisured 

 and wealthy fly-fishers, than there are in 

 Scotland. 



When I look around me, I feel sure that 

 our best wet-fly fishermen in Scotland, are 

 chiefly professional and business men, who 

 have but little time or inclination for such 

 additional studies ; who take their annual 

 holiday, fly-fishing ; and, that over, have to 

 take up, once more, the more serious affairs 

 of life. Therefore, the man of leisure or 

 the scientist, is the one to whom we all 

 naturally look, for information upon such 

 matters. But a man may be a very good 

 fly-fisher and a poor entomologist, or he 

 may be a good entomologist and an in- 

 different fly -fisher. The man who combines 

 the two, and who also can fish well with 

 wet-fly and dry-fly alike, is king of fishermen 

 "for a 1 that." 



It is a matter of sincere regret to me, 

 that I did not study the science of ento- 

 mology in my youth. 



The first work I took up haphazard was 



