x THE ANGLER'S GUIDE 



Fly-fishing was first mentioned by Aelian,who flourished 

 A.D. 225. He describes a species of trout and the dressing 

 of an artificial fly. 



In 1496, Wynkyn de Worde, assistant to William Cax- 

 ton, the first printer of a book in England, added the 

 printed treatise on "Fysshinge with an Angle" to the 

 second edition of "The Book of St. Albans" by Dame 

 Juliana Barnes, who is by many writers credited with 

 the authorship, but the writer of this treatise is really 

 unknown. 



Since these days of old the angler and angling have been 

 favorite subjects of the most famous of poets, painters 

 and philosophers, and the world's greatest men have been 

 proud to be numbered among the craft. 



Frank Forester declared the angler "could not possibly 

 be of an unkind, ungentle, or unmanly nature," and years 

 and men have proven this to be true. 



Shakespeare, our greatest poet, was an angler. 



Izaak Walton, one or the world's most religious thinkers, 

 wrote " The Compleat Angler," a single first-edition volume 

 of which was sold recently for six thousands of dollars ! 



Daniel Webster, John James Audubon, Henry D. 

 Thoreau, Alexander Wilson, Henry William Herbert, and 

 thousands of other noble men, including George Washing- 

 ton, the father of our country, gently "dropped their lines 

 in pleasant places," and, and "go thou and do likewise," 

 brother. 



