It is now some years since Trout Flies: A Discussion and a Dictionary was published and although it was well received and the demands of some anglers have been sufficiently insistent to make another edition possible, that book never satisfied me enough to make me feel that a revised edition would merit the approval that I would wish for it.

Introduction.

The standard of fly fishing is almost certainly higher to-day than at any time in the past, although I feel sure that with but little trouble to himself the average fly-fisher could greatly improve his technique and could catch many more fish than he does.

Part I. Chapter I. On catching more fish.