ON RAPID STREAMS. 



CHAPTER IT. 



WE must now proceed to the immediate intention 

 of the work, and consider fishing as an Art as it 

 has seemed best adapted, to small rapid streams 

 such as are found in the North of Devon in all 

 parts, on Exmoor, or in the South of Devon, and 

 on Dartmoor. These streams will afford a suffi- 

 cient type of the class of streams to which my 

 remarks are most particularly applicable; such 

 streams indeed may be found elsewhere in Wales, 

 Scotland, and England, but taking my old 

 favourite haunts as the seat of operations, I shall 

 be able to write more practically, and make my 

 remarks apply more forcibly, than if I were not 

 so to keep the very water I am fishing before my 

 eyes, even whilst occupied with pen and ink 

 instead of the actual rod and line; at the same 

 time, after selecting my type of streams, and thus 

 excluding such as are not of their kind, it will be 

 necessary to do no more in the way of particularity, 

 and it. is not intended to append special remarks 

 on any peculiar mode to be adopted on any one 

 stream or another, but rather to generalize the 

 subject thus previously curtailed, classifying only 



