PREFACE 



TO 



THE SECOND EDITION 



IN preparing the Second Edition of this work, it has been 

 my endeavour to rectify the faults and omissions 

 contained in the First. In collecting and arranging 

 material coming under so many heads, and where 

 similarity of method, etc., often runs one department into 

 another and especially when many years have been occupied 

 in the preparation of the work the difficulties of arrangement 

 and of avoiding confusion are much greater than would be 

 supposed. Whatever oversights, therefore, may have occurred 

 from these causes, I have now endeavoured as far as possible 

 to correct ; and I have also added, for the greater convenience 

 of reference, both for the angler and fly tyer, an index of the 

 fullest possible nature, and I trust it may be found useful. 

 I have further added between thirty and forty pages to the 

 work itself ; having, for the purpose of perfecting the fly list 

 to the various salmon rivers in the kingdom, given new lists of 

 flies for no less than ten more rivers than were given in the 

 First Edition, and appended additional information on lake 

 trout flies, general tackle making, and many other subjects 

 which appeared to me to be capable of advantageous expansion. 

 I have now but to convey my thanks to the angling public 

 for very marked favour extended to the First Edition of this 

 work, which, I am informed (by those who have been in the 

 habit of selling angling works for very many years), sold more 

 rapidly than any other angling book produced during the last 

 quarter of a century, a practical compliment which authors of 

 all kinds very fully appreciate ; and I can but hope that the 

 Second Edition may be found even more worthy of favour 

 than the First. 



FRANCIS FRANCIS. 



August, 1867. 



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