Excerpt from Practical Fly Fishing

Here then is "Practical Fly Fishing," a companion book to my "Practical Bait Casting," and like that little work this is offered mainly as a text book to help the novice through places where there is rocky bottom, rough water and other hard wading.

It will be noted that I have devoted more space, proportionately, to fly fishing for black bass than have other writers, for the following reasons: the more general distribution of the bass offers a far greater number of anglers an opportunity to take them on a fly rod; it is a phase of angling that is becoming amazingly popular; it is a subject that most angling writers have neglected and on which there is little definite data.

I acknowledge with thanks permission granted me by the publishers of the "Chicago Tribune" to include here some material that I had written for their columns. I also thank Call J. McCarthy for posing for pictures; Oscar G. Lundberg for taking them; William Mills & Son, Abbey & Imbrie and Hardy Brothers for permission to reproduce illustrations from their catalogues and many brothers of the angle who have otherwise assisted me - may the South Wind always blow when they go a-angling.

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