AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



THE article "Fly Fishing for Trout," I contributed 

 in its original form to Sports Afield, Mr. Claude 

 King's Western journal. 



JThe article "Trout and Trouting," as I originally 

 prepared it, was entitled "Near-by Trout Streams," 

 and was written for and published in Outing, when I 

 was field editor of that delightful magazine. 



"Trouting in Canadensis Valley" is rewritten from 

 a little story of mine penned at the suggestion of the 

 noted angler and ichthyologist, the late William C. 

 Harris, and published by him in his The American 

 Angler when I became his managing editor. 



"Trout Flies, Artificial and Natural" and "The 

 Brook Trout Incognito" are elaborations of studies 

 I composed for Forest and Stream. 



And many of the items in "Little Casts," etc., are 

 from a collection of paragraphs I have contributed 

 to the New York Herald, the New York Press, and 

 various sporting periodicals in past years. 



The extracts from the article by Willis Boyd Allen 

 are reprinted by permission of Scribner's Magazine. 



For the little pen-and-ink sketches I am indebted 

 to our jovial artist, Leppert. 



The picture, "Taking the Fly,' 1 is a reproduc- 

 tion from an etching in my possession, presented 

 to me by Mr. William M. Carey, whose etchings 

 and paintings in oil are well known to American 

 sportsmen. 



"The Fly Rod's Victim" is reproduced from a 



