PRESS OPINIONS OF 

 "THE SALMON FLY.' 



The art of catching sahnon with a Ry is often regarded, especially by 

 beginners, as a very abstruse and complicated problem. There is no doubt that the 

 want of success experienced by most tyros leads them to lay this flattering unction 

 to their soul, that it's "the sort of thing no feller can understand," as Lord Dundreary 

 used to say. 



lUit how if they set about it by entirely the wrong method I How if they 

 pursue " Rules of Thumb" which will never lead them anywhere ! 



I have set forth in T/ie Sahnon Fly, a regular and systematic plan based 

 upon the practical observation of a lifetime, which if it be not a Royal Road to 

 success, will yet lighten very materially the burden to be carried by these young 

 beginners, and may even afford some valuable wrinkles to older hands. 



To show that this is not merely an unsupported assertion of my own, I have 

 ventured to print below a number of cuttings from the papers containing reviews of 

 the book. I do so for the purpose of pointing out that salmon fishing with the fly, is 

 susceptible, like many other pursuits, of a treatment based upon knowledge and 

 experience, which will certainly yield results, in the hands of those who deign to try 

 it, very different from any that can be expected from the haphazard treatment of the 

 " chuck-and-chance-it " school. The whole subject has been expounded at great 

 length, and is alluded to in the extracts given below. 



THE TIMES, Marc/i ^th, 1896. 



" The Salmon Fly, by Geo. M. Kelson (published 1)y the Author), is an elab- 

 orate and fully illustrated volume on a subject of profound interest to many sports- 

 men. .Mr. Kelson writes with the authority of a skilled ami enthusiastic angler." 



