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HOW TO FISH A TREATISE ON TROUT TROUT-FISHERS W. EARL HODGSON AUTHOR OF TROUT FISHING AhD SALMON FISHING WITH EIGHT FULL-PAGE lLLUSTRATIONS PROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND EIGHTEEN SMAUER ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT TO THOMAS J. BARRATT, ESQ., D.L. IN BRIGHT REMEMBRANCE OF THREE SEASONS ON A HAMPSHIRE STREAM PREFATORY NOTE MADAM BLACK, whom I met in the Highlands last August, then told me that Trout Fishing left a widespread want unsatisfied. In all parts of the country the travelling representative of his rm, Mr. Cannon, found that the book, though generously received when first published, in 1904, and still in demand, met the case of those only who already knew a good deal about the subject. ere was he himself, Mr. Black, on his way to Loch Tay, to try for a trout the book had not taught him all he needed to know An exhaustive treatise was required and it should be ready for issue in Spring. This was a shocking speech but gradually, as I thought it over, wrath dissolved before a perception that it was not unreasonable. Any one who discourses on a subject with which he is familiar was certainly apt, I realised, to assume that the prospective readers knew much more than they did know. That oversight, apparently, played its negative part in Trout Fishing. Yes I would write the exhaustive treatise. Here it is. A few theories which I have had the honour of stating in articles contributed to periodicals, including The Times, The Nineteenth Century, The National Review, and The Monthly Review, are, with perrnissions, presented in it but, of course, they are presented in fresh words, in their natural relations, and modiJed by such criticisms as were unmistakably true. The sum-total of the theories mentioned is a very small part of the volume, which I have sought to make conlpletely comprehensive. Next time the Publisher returns from trout- fishing with his spirits less light than his creel, he will have himself, not me, to blame. CHAPTER I THE TROUT Early in the Year-Where are they -From South to North -A Yorkshire Belief-Another Surmise-A Well-in- formed Gipsy-Fish that are in condition all the Year -The Pools become Alive-Gregarious Habits-Daily Movements-In Gentle Flood-Mysterious Disappear- ance-Eddies-Slack Water-A Singular Pool-Strange Uniformity of Size-In Indian File- Rising Short - The Explanation-In Raging Flood. . IN the South of England, as White of Selborne noticed, trout begin to rise shortly after the middle of March. This implies that they have returned to the places in which they were during the summer before. In autumn, when running up the waters to the spawning-grounds, they would take worms greedily, if these were offered, and would even rise at flies, real or artificial but, as any honest poacher could vouch, they do not rise freely at flies, or bite eagerly at more substantial baits, when on the way back to the places which they occupy in spring and summer. Indeed, their habits for four or five months after spawning are mysterious...

Excerpt from How to Fish: A Treatise on Trout Trout-FishersFebruary, and the capture of fish in January was not unknown. Perhaps our analogy will commend itself.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.

Excerpt from Trout FishingIn this edition there is a new frontispiece. I myself was well pleased with Rolfe's picture which adorns the earlier issues; but Mr. Adam Black thought that our version had not done justice to the original. He believed that a better reproduction was possible, and asked me whether Mr. Barratt would lend the original again. Mr. Barratt said "Certainly," and had the picture brought to London from Kent; but he was willing to do more than the Publisher wished.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.

This is the third edition of his book and was published in 1920. Excerpts from the book: However intimate any man's acquaint- ance with the habits of trout may be, there comes not infrequently a day on which it proves distressingly insufficient. The water is in splendid order, the air is volatile, and the lures seem right ; but not a trout will rise. This shows that the science of angling is still far from being exact. In the British Islands the sport has been a favourite for centuries. By means of rods and lines, books of flies, and cases of minnow-tackle, as well as by oral tradition and literature, instruction in it has been passed on, constantly revised and expanded, from generation to generation ; yet there always have been, and appar- ently there always will be, days on which, even if his life depended on his doing so, the most expert angler could not, by fair means, catch a single trout. Often these days are to all appearance quite like days on which the fish rose at the fly well and the basket was quickly filled ; but somehow or other knowledge lingers, the most experienced skill is baffled. It is not that all the trout are asleep or fast- ing. Although they will not look at any of the lures you offer, here and there you see one rising or " tailing " ; or it may be that a rapidly moving upheaval of the water shows that a large old trout is rushing at a young one. The fish, or some of them, are obviously not alto- gether abstinent from food ; but the task of catching them passes the wit of man.

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