by Lovers of the Art, with

Illustrations of Standard Flies. Collected by

Charles F.Orvis

A. Nelson Cheney

MANCHESTER,VERMONT:

C.F.ORVIS
1883

CONTENTS.

PAGE

ETCHINGS ON A SALMON STREAM-Charles Hallock...

FLY CASTING FOR SALMON-George Dawson...

THE SALMON AND TROUT OF ALASKA-L. A. Beardslee....

SEA-TROUT-Fitz James Fitch......

RANGELEY BROOK TROUT-James A. Williamson..

THE GRAYLING-Fred Mather.......

A TROUTING TRIP TO ST. IGNACE ISLAND-W. Thomson..

THE ANGLER'S GREETING-W. David Tomlin......

• THE LURE-"Bourgeois".

FLY-FISHING IN THE YOSEMITE-A. Louis Miner, Jr.

HOW TO CAST A FLY-Seth Green.

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9

17

47

81

89

97

119

131

... 143

159

TROUT MEETING THEM ON THE "JUNE RISE"-"Ness-

muk".

.... 161

"WHY PETER WENT A-FISHING" (by permission of the

author)-W. C. Prime....

... 173

FROM "GAME FISH OF THE NORTH" (by permission of the

author)-R. B. Roosevelt......

183

THE POETRY OF FLY FISHING-F. E. Pond....

. 201

A PERFECT DAY-Geo. W. Van Siclen....

211

SUGGESTIONS-Charles F. Orvis...

217

THE RESOURCES OF FLY FISHING-Dr. James A. Henshall 233

WINTER ANGLING-Frank. S. Pinckney..

249

NOT ALL OF FISHING TO FISH-A. Nelson Cheney.

265

FLY-FISHING IN FLORIDA-Dr. C. J. Kenworthy...

283

FLY-FISHING-E. Z. C. Judson.....

293

66

"Together let us beat this ample field,

Try what the open, what the covert yield."

-Pope.

Gentlemen, let not prejudice prepossess you. I confess my discourse is like to prove suitable to my recreation, calm and quiet. So much for the prologue of what I mean to say.”—Izaak Walton.