144 ^^^ BRITISH ANGLER.P.II. 



Though as the Weather in Spring grows 

 warmer, fo the T?'out ^xg^^ ftronger, and 

 departs from the deep Itill Waters, into the 

 Iharp Streams and Gravel ; yet the beft 'Trouts 

 often in Summer, in exceflive Droughts, are 

 driven out of the fmall fhallow Streams into 

 the plain Deeps, where you may catch them 

 withDibbing,^or, on a gloomy, cloudy, and 

 windy Day, that furls the Water, with the 

 Caft-fly, There are feldom any Store of'Trouts 

 in Rivers that foftly glide through plain, level, 

 and champaign Grounds : For they generally 

 live nearer the Source, or Spring- head of 

 Rivers. 



If there be Plenty of Cbuhs in any Rivers, 

 one Ihali catch Trouts there only in March^ 

 Aprils the Beginning of May and Septemher ; 

 becaufe in the four hot Months the Chubs 

 come into the Streams, and drive out moft of 

 the Trouts* 



Trouts in their Seafon are very nimble, and 

 will drive long and vigoroufly for their Lives, 

 ruuning among Roots, Weeds, or any thing 

 to entangle or break the Line, They like a 

 large Bait at the Ground. Flies they take moft 

 at top of the Water, or fometimes within two 

 or three Inches of it. With Minnow or Loach 

 they are caught within a Foot of the Surface, 

 and fometimes lower by Trowling. Some 

 efteem the Salmon to be no other than a Sea- 

 Trout •, becaufe of his fmall Difference in Shape, 

 Nature, and Qualities, from the T^rout that 

 lives continually in the frefli Waters. 



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