Illustrations 



The beautiful Neversink . Frontispiece 



Hook and fly sizes and numbers 27 



The overhead fly-cast 45 



Expert dry-fly caster at work 50 



The author's "Big-Birch" fishing camp .... 97 

 "The smaller, rapid streams that are full of 



rocks and small pools" 115 



"Fish all large pools first from below." (No 



"sportsman angler" this, but a typical 



"real expert") 147 



Some of his " pet bass-bugs", tied by Dr. 



J. E. Storey 180 



Eight color-plates of standard commercial 



artificial flies 229 



Shad-fly, the American May-fly 248 



And numerous additional cuts illustrative of the 

 technical text 



Decorative initials by Louis Rhead 



