PREFACE. 



I WRITE this little book with a view to fur- 

 nishing that which numerous friends and cor- 

 respondents have been long asking for, viz., an 

 inexpensive, plain book on sea fishing and sea 

 tackle. Those of my readers who have chanced, 

 in their wanderings, to have been, like me, cast 

 into all sorts of odd nooks and corners of this 

 world of ours, will not fail to remember how 

 requisite it is to be enabled to fall back on some 

 such occupation as fishing, to pass pleasantly away 

 hours which would otherwise pass slowly or, per- 

 chance, gloomily. Few places are there visited by 

 travellers, emigrants, or military men, where fish 

 of some kind (sometimes odd enough, I admit) 

 are not to be lured from their natural element 

 into the bag or basket of their pursuer, if pro- 

 perly equipped for their capture, often furnishing 

 an excellent and abundant meal, where short 



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