Excerpt from The Trout Waters of England: A Practical Guide to the Fisherman for Sea Trout, Brown Trout, and GrylingI take it that this guide will be read chiefly by the fishermen who have only a few weeks of leisure during the year, and if it is to prove a true companion in the pocket, it must state whether the trout are plentiful and small, or big, cap ricious, and not very numerous; wheth er the angler should use the dry or the wet fly, and what pattern of flies he should select, with many other details.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.