Excerpt from Some Piscatorial Problems Idly Considered We have at least no right to assume that they could not have dressed the most minute of loch flies with a perfection of finish that Mr. Halford himself might have envied, if they had so wished. Diagrams of the patterns of river flies used by them forbid the assumption. Why, then, were they content with rougher, larger, and, as we would consider them, coarser flies to fish the lochs? The truth, I think, is to be found in the contrast between the older and newer habits of anglers themselves. Fifty years ago the holiday habit was not so firmly established as it is to-day, and I fancy that there were but few anglers in those earlier times who ever thought of going off on a three weeks' or a month's angling holiday. 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.