HANDBOOK OF ANGLING.

LONDON

PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.

NEW-STREET SQUARE

[ Fitzgibbon, Edward,

A HANDBOOK

OF

ANGLING:

TEACHING

FLY-FISHING, TROLLING, BOTTOM-FISHING,

AND SALMON-FISHING.

WITH THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RIVER FISH, AND

THE BEST MODES OF CATCHING THEM.

BY

EPHEMERA

Of Bell's Life in London,

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF THE SALMON' ETC.

'I have been a great follower of fishing myself, and in its cheerful solitude
have passed some of the happiest hours of a sufficiently happy life.'—PALEY.

FOURTH EDITION

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.