344 TROUT AND ANGLING. 



ed a second time, with the hook which but 

 a few moments before his struggling had de- 

 tached, fixed firmly in his jaw. In fact, the loss 

 of a favorite fly, is generally attended with the 

 consolation that it may be thus recovered again. 



Once angling with the bait by the side of a 

 friend, we struck*, trout, and he shortly doing the 

 same, on raising our rods, a fine fish was suspended 

 between us. It was judged to belong to him 

 whose hook was deepest. We have heard it said 

 that it was necessary to the existence of the fresh 

 water trout that they should periodically visit the 

 sea, but this notion is too ridiculous to deserve 

 a serious contradiction. The innumerable ob- 

 structions of our rivers and rivulets now-a-days, 

 most effectually prevent it. On the contrary we 

 say farther, that there is a small description of 

 trout often found in such streams as flow into the 

 tide waters, that have this opportunity without 

 availing themselves of it. They are not only na- 

 tives of the stream, but live within its confines all 

 the year round. 



Alas ! that the manufacturing interest should 

 clash with the success of the fisheries ! It is not 

 that we complain of these obstructions as prevent- 

 ing the fish from going down to the sea ; we should 

 be content to find them still where nature placed 

 them. But now, they are dispersed and degen- 



