3864 MANUAL FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 
identical. Trolling is trolling, and fly-fishing fly-fishing the 
world over ; nor have I ever any where else met instructions 
for both, so practical, so plain, and so replete with all that 
can be taught by precept, and may be matured by experi- 
ence into perfect science, as in extracts which I here sub- 
mit, partially altered, it is true, and adapted, where altera- 
tion and adaptation were necessary, to the state of the art 
piscatorial in America, but still in the main attributable 
to the clever writer and compiler, whose nom de plume is 
so well known as an authority on English sporting mat- 
ters. 
The brief description of the leading American fishes, 
which are of interest to the angler, are arranged according 
to the best authorities, and the instructions for such modes 
of angling as are peculiar to our waters are original, and 
will, I hope, be found useful and authentic. 
It will be observed that I have not, in this volume, 
-entered largely into ichthyological questions, or discussions 
concerning the natural history and breeding of fish, which 
subjects will be found treated at large in my work on the 
fish and fishing of the United States and British Prov- 
inces of North America, and in other books devoted 
wholly to the topics of natural history, and the fauna of 
the continent. The paper on trolling for lake trout, 
which is quoted from the pages of my work above referred 
to, is from the pen of an excellent fisherman, who is much 
accustomed to the sport and the waters which he describes, 
and who kindly prepared it for the Appendix to the second 
edition of my volume. 
