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formation to enable him to identify to some extent the 

 flies which are present on the water and on which the 

 fish are presumably feeding. Hence the inclusion of 

 the second part of this book. 



The addition of the third part, treating of the 

 making and management of a fishery, was desirable 

 because this branch of the fisherman's craft is every 

 day awakening more attention, and the dire results of 

 carrying out management without knowledge have 

 produced a state of degeneration among the south- 

 country chalk-stream trout which is a source of deep 

 anxiety to all who give their thoughts to the future of 

 such streams as the Test and Itchen. 



It may be permissible to remark that I should not 

 have devoted so much space to this subject but for the 

 fact that since the publication of " Making a Fishery " I 

 have received so many enquiries — through correspond- 

 ence and otherwise — that a little amplification seemed 

 to be essential in view of the widespread interest 

 taken in the whole matter. 



These being in brief my reasons for including so 

 much in this book, I hope to be able to offer the 

 reader some degree of consolation. If I have suc- 

 ceeded in my task, I have given him in the last two 

 books I have written, this and " Modern Development 

 of the Dry-Fly," a full and complete treatise on the 

 dry-fly. The fishing, the entomology, the manage- 

 ment, the patterns, and the modern methods of select- 

 ing and preparing the materials for them, as well as 

 the latest manipulation of fly-dressing — these are all 

 treated in detail in these two volumes, which should 

 thus cover the entire subject. 



