Edward R. Hewitt, with Theodore Gordon and a few others, was one of the twentieth century's legendary fly-fishing influences. This is the distillation of his lifetime's angling expertise in America, Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere. Much of the advice is just as relevant today. Although it is based on Hewitt's two earlier classics, Telling on the Trout (which approached trout fishing from the fish's point of view) and Secrets of the Salmon (which created the sport of dry-fly salmon fishing), this book is no mere recapitulation of earlier material. Here, in his breezy, discursive style, the author gives the summation of this unequalled knowledge of angling, drawing from the backlog of his vast experience. Hewitt approached angling as a science as well as a sport: he studied the psychology of the fish as well as the fisherman, and developed his methods with the fish's weaknesses foremost in mind. The result, embodied in this book, is a highly successful philosophy of angling which any fisherman today would recognize and value.