he does, for gameness and pertinacity every other British fish." 

 — David Foster. 



"As to flies, the indifference of sea-trout about kind, when 

 they are in the humor to take any, almost warrants the belief of 

 some anglers that they leap in mere sport at whatever chances to 

 be floating. It is true they will take incredible combinations, 

 as if color-blind and blind to form. But experiments on their 

 caprice are not safe. If their desire is to be tempted, that may 

 most surely be done with three insects, adapted to proper places 

 and seasons. One need not go beyond the range of a red-bodied 

 fly with blue tip and wood-duck wings for ordinary use, a small 

 all gray fly for low water in bright light, and a yellowish fly, 

 green striped and winged with curlew feathers, for a fine cast 

 under the alders for the patriarchs." — A. R. Macdonough. 



" His tackle, for bricht airless days, is o' gossamere ; and at a 

 wee distance aff, you think he's fishin' without ony line ava, till 

 whirr gangs the pirn, and up springs the sea-trout, silver-bricht, 

 twa yards out o' the water, by a delicate jerk o' the wrist, hyucked 

 inextricably by the tongue clean ower the barb o' the kirby-bend. 

 Midge-flees!"— The Ettrick Shepherd. 



" 0, sir, doubt not but that Angling is an art ; is it not an art 

 to deceive a trout with an artificial fly ? "—Izaak Walton . 



"Sea-trout show themselves wherever salmon are found, but 

 not always simultaneously with them. In rivers where the sal- 

 mon run begins in May or early June, you need not look for 

 sea-trout in any considerable numbers before well on into July. 

 Intermediately they are found in -tide- water at the mouths of the 

 salmon rivers, and often in such numbers and of such weight 

 as give the angler superb sport."— treor^e Dawson. 



