Excerpt from Recollections of Fly Fishing for Salmon, Trout, and Grayling: With Notes on Haunts, Habits and History They be mighty partikler now-a-days, bean't they, sir? not like when I was a boy;" was the remark of the old keeper (man and boy on the river for forty years) who had been watching my vain efforts to inveigle a big trout greedily sucking in the natural fly and apparently totally regardless of the beautiful and perfect imitation I was persistently presenting to him, the only notice of which he deigned to take was an occasional turn of his head, just to satisfy himself that he was being imposed upon. 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.