INTRODUCTION. 



do not write to you as novices, or as not knowing 

 anything about it ; for I suppose you heartily 

 interested in the subject, and as having read up 

 to it from Lady Juliana Berners, down to 

 Hofland, Stoddart, Younger, Stewart, Ephemera, 

 etc., and also the Border Angler, or British 

 Railway Streams. I propose to give you a little 

 more practical detail of how to get and keep the 

 Stone or May-fly, Partail and Creeper, for your 

 baits ; and I hope I shall be able to add to your 

 amusement and your knowledge, by detailing 

 what I have really experienced myself at different 

 places. 



Beginning, therefore, with the days when I 

 was young, and before I took my departure to 

 the Great Metropolis, I shall conduct you, and 

 those who may please to read, to many a pleasant 

 river which I have visited, both for sport and 

 health, since that time. The details I will not 

 make long, but will only give a few practical 

 rules, that, when you or others go to a river, you 

 may not be disappointed altogether from not 

 knowing when to fish, and what trout and 

 salmon are likely to take in the different states 



