INTRODUCTION. 



SOME of our friends into whose hands this 

 book may fall may be ready to say " Why 

 write another Angler's Guide, when there are a 

 number in print already?" Our answer is, that 

 we have been requested by some old friends to 

 do so, who remember the little work we wrote 

 some twenty years back, entitled A Guide to 

 the White House Water. These friends think 

 that there is not only plenty of room for a 

 new work on Angling, but a want of one, and 

 such an one as we trust this will be found to 

 be, really useful and interesting. It is a fact, 

 that must be known to many, that there are a 



