THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



especially commended for September and October : Bradshaw's 

 Fancy, Walbran's Eed Tag, Bolt's Gem, Bolt's Sylph, Orange 

 Bumble, Honey Dun, Bumble, Quill, Bodied Water. Hen, Green 

 Insect, Green Aphis, Apple-green Dun, Silver Dun, Walbran's 

 Pale Autumn Dun, Walbran's Dark Autumn Dun, Cooper's 

 Fancy, and many more. \ 



The grayUng is an esthetic little fish, and to attempt to trap 

 Mm virith anything but the lightest rod, hue and trace is a crime. 

 Many a fish has been condemned unfairly, as the angler took the 

 game -with a pseudo club rather than a rod. I have seen in- 

 dividual tarpon, tuna, and yellowtail that were a disgrace to 

 the term game. It is so with all fishes. There are exceptions 

 to the rule, but the grand average of the graylings gives the 

 sportsmanlike angler one of the finest and most beautiful of all 

 the little fishes of the laughing waters, and my object has been, 

 not so much to describe him scientifically, or to mention all the 

 rivers in England he loves, but to impress hun, Uke thyme, upon 

 the reader's attention, as hke rosemary, he is for remembrance, 

 and ' Very pleasant and jolly after mid- April.' 



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