x PREFACE 



In these pages you will not find an elaborate list of 

 tackle and goods recommended, but only what I know 

 by many years' experience to be exactly suitable for the 

 sport described. 



No college training or book learning have I had, but 

 simply an education in the hard world of experience 

 and the open book of Nature herself. 



With confidence I leave this with you, and thank my 

 hundreds of friends for the kindly words and the 

 cordial reception they gave my last volume of personal 

 experiences. I trust this will meet with a similar 

 reception. 



J. W. MARTIN, 



July, 1907. "THE TRENT OTTER." 



