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APPENDIX.-A. 
For my own part, I care little for any species of Fishing, but 
fly-fishing for Trout or Salmon, and perhaps for Black Bass— 
though I have never tried them; but trolling or spinning for 
Bass and Maskalonge is said to be excellent sport for those who 
affect. 
The art piscatorial is, comparatively speaking, little under¬ 
stood or practised in the United States, bait-fishing being all 
in vogue, even for Trout, and an accomplished fly-fisher— 
though the number of them is now increasing, rara avis in ter - 
ris nigroque simillima cycno. 
With these few hints, I cry hold, enough—there is matter 
for a volume on the subject; and a most excellent one might be 
compiled and written on the subject. In the meantime, I com¬ 
mend my friends and readers to the beautiful American edition 
of Walton’s Angler, with notes and addenda, lately published 
by Messrs. Wiley and Putnam of New York, under the auspices 
of that distinguished scholar and divine, the Rev. Dr. Bethune, 
of Philadelphia. 
* Since the above was written, a very handsomely illustrated work by 
the author has been issued by the same publishers, uniform with that en¬ 
titled Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing of the United States and British 
Colonies of North America. First Edition. 
1849.—Second do., with large Supplement addition, and fresh Illus¬ 
trations. April 1851. 
