PREFACE 



here and there, at country hostelry and by the 

 waterside enthusiastic anglers all and many 

 with heads silvered by remorseless Time. Of 

 most recent memory is the delightful Scot, 

 D , Glasgow born, a retired Canadian lum- 

 berman, and loyal American withal. As we 

 sympathetically viewed from the bank the 

 strained efforts of a city sportsman new to his 

 occupation, he whispered over our shoulder: 

 "He wur-rks too much with his ar-rum; eh, 

 Dochter!" 



'T is he who vouches for the tale of the Phila- 

 delphia angler's initial trouting experience on 

 the Neversink last Summer, with salt-water 

 tackle, and blood-worm for bait, while dragging 

 it behind him in the water. Suddenly he surmised 

 he had hooked a log, but flung out on the bank 

 a four-pound trout his solitary trophy of the 

 trip. Returning home at night, he innocently 

 inquired of the other fishermen, gathered on the 

 veranda, if that was the "average size of the 

 fish in these waters"! 



His also the story of the fat man from New 

 Brunswick he weighed 250 pounds whom he' 

 found sitting on a rock in the shade, placidly 

 smoking and nonchalantly fishing for suckers, 

 one of which he hooked ever and anon and cast 



