PREFACE. 



OST anglers meet with fair success 

 when the waters are dark coloured ; 

 but when the waters are clear they 

 ' find poor sport. This is mainly due to 

 j an erroneous system of fishing, which 

 'angling works already published have done 

 little to remove, and which, though its effects 

 were not so observable fifty years ago, when 

 drainage was less extensively in operation, and 

 when the streams continued large and disco- 

 loured for some time, is not at all adapted for 

 the small clear waters of the present day. It 

 is with the view of showing how almost, if 

 not quite, as good sport may be had in clear 

 water as in coloured, that we have undertaken 



