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CHAPTER VII. 
BROWN TROUT. 
ARTIFICIAL FLY-FISHING IN’ RIVERS AND LAKES. 
Salmon and Trout fishing contrasted. River fly-fishing—How, when, 
and where to fish. Drop-flies--More than one a mistake; theory 
of. Striking and playing. 
IN thus placing Trout-fishing before Salmon-fishing, I 
invert the usual order of sequence. I do so deliberately, 
because, both as a sport, and as indisputably the most 
popular branch of angling, it seems to me to be entitled 
to precedence. With no assistance but his rod and no 
guide but experience, the Trout-fisher wanders down the 
bank of the untried lake or stream, selecting by intuitive 
perception the most likely casts, and if he raises a heavy 
fish has many a heart-quake and many a moment of 
breathless suspense, before he transfers the shining beauty 
to his creel. No Saimon-fisher, on the contrary, however 
skilful, can select for himself the places where he ought 
to fish, Salmon apparently being guided by the merest 
caprice in the choice of location, so that the very stone 
behind which the fly must fall to give a chance of 
