The Modern Practical Angler
A Complete Guide to Fly-Fishing, Bottom-Fishing, Trolling (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Modern Practical Angler: A Complete Guide to Fly-Fishing, Bottom-Fishing, Trolling<br><br>The rapid advance of late years of theoretical and material knowledge has produced a corresponding improvement in the practice of most of the arts and sciences; and the professors of the gentle art, though in a quiet and unobtrusive way, have been by no means behindhand in the general progress. The result is, that the fisherman's library, for all practical purposes, consists only of some dozen books, all, or almost all, being the works of living authors. The names of Stoddart, Peard, Francis, and Stewart, as preceptors in the use of the rod and line; and in the cognate departments of ichthyology and angling belles lettres, those of Russel, Westwood, and Buckland, are household words wherever English anglers are to be found.<br><br>With such a phalanx of authors already in the field, however, it may be not unnaturally asked, Why is the present volume published<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.