BIG TROUT OF 

 THE NEPIGON, 

 LAKE EDWARD, 

 LAKE BATISCAN, 

 ETC. 



lONTEMPLATIVE men 



who love quietness and virtue 

 and to go a-fishing, attain to 

 such famiharity with the works 

 of Nature, that it would indeed be 

 strange if each succeeding generation 

 of anglers did not make some advance 

 from the previous store of scientific 

 knowledge pertaining to the interesting 

 subjects of fish and fishing. For it is 

 as true in our day as in those in which Walton wrote 

 and fished, that angling is " so like the mathematics 

 that it can never be fully learned ; at least not so 

 fully but that there will still be more new experiments 

 left for the trial of other men that succeed us." 



Indefatigable industry and rare, ripe scholarship have 

 been devoted to its literature, and though the art is 

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