MOFFAT'S SECRETS OF ANGLING Opinions of the Press- 

 Continued. 



experience in the ways and means of angling, is enabled to bring before 

 Ms disciples every point of information which it is needful they should 

 become acquainted with. Beginning at the very outset, we have a 

 chapter on rods and the implements necessary for an angler's proper 

 equipment; then the characters, food, general condition, spawning, 

 and proceedings of different sorts of fish are detailed ; following which 

 a series of chapters, all brimful of an earnest love for the sport, and a 

 desire to ^mpart a knowledge to beginners of its mysteries, contain 

 suggestions and ideas on natural fly-fishing, minnow, worm, maggot, 

 and float fishing. The volume concludes with remarks on the tackle 

 required for salmon-fishing, on the different methods of catching and 

 fishing for this noble fish, together with a description of the Border 

 rivers where trout, salmon, and grilse are to be found ; and finally, by 

 way of pleasant sop to the gastronomic brothers of the rod, dilates on 

 the science of cooking salmon, potting trout, and kippering the same 

 dainty denizens of the water. In a woi& so truly practical it is 

 difficult to furnish extracts likely to be of general intrest to all persons, 

 but that Mr. Moffat knows how to describe what is worth describing 

 we have abundant evidence in these pages. Of the efficiency of Mr. 

 MofFat's various kind of tackle, which are most plainly and minutely 

 described ; of his preference for this or that sort of live or artificial bait 

 we will say nothing, only advising our angling readers to purchase the 

 book and judge for themselves. Bell's Life in London. 



11 To the disclosure of angling secrets, such as enabled us to return 

 home with a heavy basket of fish, is Mr. Moflat's volume mainly 

 devoted. Specially to be commended is that portion of the work 

 treating of the various insects on which trout feed, and on the imita- 

 tion of which the angler's success will greatly depend." Athenceum. 



11 A book which sets forth clearly and carefully all the devices for 

 ensnaring all kinds of fish by lawful and orthodox means. Every 

 conceivable variety of bait, tackle, and implement, is carefully and 

 briefly explained in his pages, and much useful information given as to 



