A SCOTTISH FLY-FISHER 



CHAPTER, r'"'' '-' 



INTRODUCTORY 



F all the means by which we seek 

 to ease our shoulders of the weight 

 of life, none, it is maintained, is so 

 valuable as angling. That, surely, 

 depends upon the seeker. To the 

 born angler there is nothing more 

 absorbing, but he from whom the 

 angling instinct has been withheld finds in it only 

 another form of tedium. He may be mildly interested 

 while sport is good, but he is without enthusiasm, and 

 in the absence of rising fish is unsustained by hope. 



