. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. '"-Jf /:, After practising these two casts for some years whenever the emergency required it in Trout-fishing, I was agreeably surprised in reading Chitty's (" Theophilus South's") " Fly- Fisher's Te
. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. '"-Jf /:, After practising these two casts for some years whenever the emergency required it in Trout-fishing, I was agreeably surprised in reading Chitty's (" Theophilus South's") " Fly- Fisher's Text-Book/' to find them illustrated, and have intro- duced the above diagram, which is somewhat similar, to show that the same casts can be used in Salmon-fishing. There are other obstacles and impediments the Salmon- fisher meets with, which he will have to bear patiently or overcome as well as he can. Amongst these, there is nothing so annoying as an unfavorable wind. At one time it may blow obstinately in your very teeth, requiring a deal of " elbow- grease" to get the fly out. At another time there is a spank- ing breeze astern, and if you can get your line out behind you, there are many chances of cracking your fly oK Then there is a side-wind blowing up stream or down stream, requiring a nice calculation as to how much you must allow for leeway, when aiming above or below the spot, as the case may be. At such times, unless the fish are very, much dis- posed to rise, " the game does not pay for the candle," and the fisher had better get into some sheltered nook and light his pipe, instead of thrashing the wind and getting up a feeling of animosity against old Boreas or-^ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877. Philadelphia, E. H. Butler
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