YOUNG FISH EISE AT THE FLY. 153 



full of minute gnats which he caught in his 



hall window, and placing them by means of 



a moistened brush on the top of the tanks in 



" The Field " office window, was pleased to 



see the young salmon and trout rise freely 



at them as .they floated down the stream, 



making a twist and boil of the writer exactly 



like their fathers and mothers in their native 

 mountain torrents : this is a most interesting 



and amusing sight, inasmuch as the spectator 

 sees in miniature exactly what happens on a 

 grand scale when he is angling for the full- 

 grown fish in their native wild and rapid 

 streams. The young fish is seen in mid- 

 water, gently holding his own by movements 

 of the tail ; the fly comes over him, his tail 

 begins to " wag," and in an instant he darts 

 like an arrow from a bow, upwards in an 



