Fly-Fishers' Ephemeridæ

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Excerpt from Fly-Fishers' Ephemeridæ: Being an Analysis of the British Ephemeridæ as at Present Known to Science, Extracted, Mostly From the Works of Other People, for the Benefit of Such Members of the Fly-Fishers' Club as May Care to Use It Of the few works which have been produced on this subject, none are couched in terms so elementary that they make an appeal to the angler in his arm chair. In them is much counting of invisible teeth and numbering of infinitely small hairs, so that the simple fisher quickly feels that the matter is too hard for him, and must be left to the attention of scientists with very large microscopes and much leisure. It is, indeed, a difficult business to name with precision the genera and species to which individual members of this family belong, the more so as it is not improbable that several - perhaps one should even say many - have no names, yet there are lines comparatively simple along which the fisherman may travel that will lead him in due course to the end of a journey both pleasant and profitable, inasmuch as that he will have acquired a sound working knowledge, sufficient for all practical purposes, of those insects which provide the cream of sport with the rod. 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.