INTRODUCTION. 



SALMON-FISHING is to trout-fishing as is a father to his 

 son. Though the stature and avoirdupois of the one may 

 exceed that of the other, the relationship is notwithstand- 

 ing none the less near. Apart from the immaterial dif- 

 ference of size, the appliances for salmon-fishing, the gaff 

 excepted, are the appliances for trout-fishing. Alike as 

 they are in material, alike in method of manufacture, 

 and alike in that their adaptability to the end in view 

 depends on the more or less perfect embodiment of the 

 same principles of construction, it has been thought un- 

 necessary to touch upon this branch of our subject in 

 other than the briefest possible manner. As the lawyer 

 refers in his bill of complaint to his documentary exhibits, 

 and by that reference incorporates them in and makes 

 them part of his plea, so I refer to my former volume, 

 " Fly-Rods and Fly-Tackle," and make it part of this. 

 The origin and quality of the crude materials, the meth- 

 ods by which they are converted into the finished article, 

 the principles which should govern that conversion, and 

 the comparative degree of excellence which each material 

 and method affords, are therein considered at length. To 



review would be but to repeat. 



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