6o ANGLING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



meet with worse sport than a couple of dozen sea-trout 

 in such condition and of such dimensions, fairly caught 

 with the fly. 



The sea-trout fights in a manner of his own. His 

 first dashes are as fierce as those of the Thames trout, but 

 (for his size) he keeps the game up longer, and has some 

 special gift at leaping out of the water. It was not until 

 I had caught a few sea-trout that I comprehended how it 

 could be possible for a man, who had the instincts of a 

 true sportsman, to treat with contempt all fresh-water fish 

 but sea-going Salmonidse. Numbers of Scotch anglers 

 deem even brown trout unworthy of notice, and they are 

 generally men who have been fortunate enough to be able 

 to fish for sea-trout, and on privileged occasions a salmon, 

 in their younger days. The sea-trout soon steals into 

 your afiections. He is so elegant in shape, so full of health 

 and life, so active in his movements, so plucky in resisting 

 the doom to which the angler (who loves him so much) 

 consigns him — a justifiable doom, nevertheless, for the 

 sea-trout is a fish that will not disgrace any table. 



The Welsh sewin is nothing like so reliable as a sport- 

 yielder as the triitta, if, indeed, what you are assured is a 

 sewin should happen to be the bull-trout, as in the majority 

 of instances it will prove to be. He is not a ravenous riser 

 at the fly, though in this respect he is more charitable in 

 his actions than the great lake trout of Ireland and Scot- 

 land. The Coquet is the British stream most frequented 

 by Sabno criox, and the lusty fish run to ten or twelve 

 pounds, and sometimes to sixteen or eighteen pounds. 

 You rarely bag them so large in the south Welsh streams, 

 and in fly-fishing two and three pound fish are as much as 

 you can expect. More than half of the fish called sewin by 

 Welsh anglers are Salmo trutta, to whose healthy appetites 



