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."

"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.

SECOND EDITION,

IMPROVED AND EXTENDED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

ΤΟ

MAJOR MOUNTJOY MARTYN,

OF THE 2ND REGIMENT OF LIFE GUARDS,

A

DISTINGUISHED PROMOTER OF ALL MANLY SPORTS,

WHICH HAVE TENDED SO MUCH

TO MAKE THE BRITISH SOLDIER THE BEST AND BRAVEST

IN THE WORLD,

THIS IMPROVED EDITION

OF

A HANDBOOK OF ANGLING

IS

Gratefully Enscribed,

BY HIS OBLIGED AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

2. Cambridge Street,

Hyde Park Square, 1848.