Excerpt from North-Country Flies: Comprising Eleven Plates of Hand-Painted Illustrations It would be at once idle and' unfair, on my part, to pretend that all that is set down in this book is the result of my own observation, know ledge, . And experience; for much of it I am indebted to older heads than my own; still, since I first fished the Yorkshire waters, now more than twenty years ago, I have made a point of recording every matter of moment which I have noticed on the rivers, or have heard from my fellow-fishermen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.