36 RULES FOR TROUT-FISHING. 



cretion, except the angler be so indiscreet as not 



to accommodate him ? 



" The Chub, of all fish in the silver Trent, 

 Invites the angler to the tournament: 

 Where, near the stream, you'll always find him ready 

 To meet the bait before it meets the eddy." FRANCKS. 



GENERAL RULES FOR TROUT-FISHING. 



" When, with his lively ray, the potent sun 



Has pierced the streams and roused the finny race, 

 Then, issuing cheerful, to thy sport repair. 

 Chief should the western breezes curling play, 

 And light o'er aether bear the shadowy clouds. 

 Just in the dubious point, where with the pool 

 Is mixed the trembling stream, or where it boils 

 Around the stones ; or from the hollow bank 

 Reverted plays in undulating flow, 

 There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly, 

 And, as you lead it round with artful curve, 

 With eye attentive mark the springing game. 

 Straight, as above the surface of the flood 

 They wanton rise, or, urged by hunger, leap, 

 Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook." 



[The angler who does not dress his own flies (an art which, 

 by the by, every one should learn,) will, perhaps, be glad to 

 know that he can be well supplied at Abergavenny in Mon- 

 mouthshire, by a man named Lewis, a hairdresser there, and a 

 most scientific fly-fisher. Beyond Abergavenny, and near 

 Crickhovvel, at the spot where the Clydach pours its poisonous 

 waters into the Uske, lives another professed fiy-maker : we 

 forget his name ; but he is well known throughout Monmouth- 

 shire and the neighbouring counties.] 



ALTHOUGH anglers residing, like the author of this 

 work, within a few hundred paces of one of the most 



