PRACTICAL FLY FISHING 



surrounding districts, it is hoped that angling 

 will again become what it was in old days in 

 the North of England. 



To bring Mr. Beever's work up to date, a few 

 notes have been all that seemed necessary, and 

 they are kept together in the Appendix, in order 

 to leave the original paragraphs untouched. 

 The contributors of the notes, Messrs. Arthur 

 Severn, junior, and Agnew Ruskin Severn, of 

 Brantwood, Coniston, are, as all their neigh- 

 bours know, experts with the rod, and fully 

 acquainted with the fishing of their own country. 

 It would be far beyond the scope of this work 

 to add detailed instructions adapted to other 

 centres, or to discuss the value of Mr. Beever's 

 paragraphs, in various matters upon which 

 opinions differ. For example, many readers 

 may feel that he lays too much stress on the 

 advantages of making your own rod ; and that 

 modern improvements have superseded the 

 clever joiner and his plane. To most amateurs, 

 certainly, who only fish a little, it is not worth 

 the trouble. But the other day, talking over 

 this question with a professional authority, 

 Mr. Hully, the watcher for the conservators of 

 the district he had come, by the way, with a 

 hundred full-grown char to add to the stock of 

 our lake I was interested to find him a staunch 



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