20 SAMLET, OR SCARLING. 



better) ; put two or three turns round the top of 

 the shank of the hook, with a body below of a mix- 

 ture of light orange wool and a little dark fur with 

 yellow tips from a hare's ear, ribbed with gold 

 thread: should the river be low, use a smaller 

 hook ; and if very full water, to the larger you may 

 put wings made of the small spotted galino fowl's 

 feather, or grouse's speckled feather, or a darkish 

 spotted one from off a mallard's back. Use good 

 sound gut for your bottom, for they are very strong, 

 and yield noble sport. The angler is immediately 

 made aware that he has hooked a sewin and not a 

 common trout ; for the former invariably leap out of 

 the water immediately on being struck. It is very 

 necessary to wind up hastily, or retreat quickly back- 

 wards in this sort of fishing ; for they are apt to run 

 in suddenly towards you, and if once allowed a slack 

 line they most likely get away. 



SAMLET, OR SCARLING. 



In most of the Welsh rivers there is found a 

 small fish like a trout, with eight or more blueish 

 finger marks on its side, commonly called samlet 

 or scarling. From July to October they are very 

 numerous, being principally found in the shallow 

 streams, they rise at any of the trout flies made 

 small, especially the red dropper, and the best 



