WHITE-TROUT FISHING. I3I 
Wales. To anglers, by far the most interesting species 
is the Salmon Trout. 
Salmon Trout fishing when good is perhaps, at any 
rate for a time, the most fascinating of all fishing. In- 
digenous in many of our best Salmon and Bull Trout 
rivers, and frequently abounding in streams which 
produce neither the one nor the other, there is no fish 
that swims which rises more fearlessly to the fly, or 
when hooked, shows for its size such indomitable— 
English pluck I was about to say—but at any rate such 
determined and enduring courage. In fact, the bright 
eraceful Salmo trutta is the most game and mettlesome, 
if not, on the whole, the most beautiful fish known to 
Europe, or probably to the world. 
Although the Don, the Spey, Tay, Annan, Nith, and 
many other Scotch waters, as well as a few English 
rivers produce the Sea Trout in tolerable abundance, 
Ireland must be considered as its home far excellence. 
Many of the streams and lakes on the west coast of 
Ireland produce Sea Trout in an abundance, rare if not 
unknown, in the sister Island. 
Salmon Trout are migratory, and in this respect re- 
semble the Salmon more than the Brown Trout ; other 
of their habits, however, seem more allied to the 
latter species, and, as remarked in one of the 
earlier Chapters of this book, the fish would appear to 
stand in its habits and instincts somewhere about mid- 
way between the two. So with regard to the flies 
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