32 The North Country Angler. 



where the best fish will feed, and how they station 

 themselves according to their size : and I am 

 persuaded, if any angler would place himself at 

 the head or foot of a pool, and watch i wo hours, 

 he would be delighted and instructed too, as I 

 was; and might save himself many needless casts, 

 where there are no fish ; as I have often done 

 myself, and seen others do. 



But though trouts will station themselves ac- 

 cording to their size, in the day time, yet, as the 

 great ones do not leave their holds till night, 

 they will then all range about, and feed as they 

 can : for I have often at the same line taken some 

 twenty inches, and others not above eight or nine. 

 And I believe, there are some very large trouts, 

 that never come into streams or shallows to feed, 

 except in floods, 



CHAP. X. 



Of the Pink, or Brandling Trout. 



X HERE is a little trout in all rivers, where 

 salmon can come up to spawn, about which 

 even anglers, and other ingenious and curious 

 persons have differed in their opinions. This 

 put me upon making what observations I could, 

 to find out the true original, and breed of it. 



This fish, in the spring, is very small ; differ- 

 ing little in its size from the true salmon smelt, 

 which always goes down to the sea, with the first 



