42 THE WONDERFUL TROUT 



aqueous medium, we cannot say, and pro- 

 bably they are very different from our appre- 

 ciations of the same, looking at them from 

 our own standpoint, or even up through water 

 at the sky ' like the fishes/ 



It appears to us to be a mere begging of 

 the question to use as an argument that the 

 colour of insects, as seen by us, is comparable 

 with what may be seen by fish. Fish see 

 through a different medium from ours, and 

 surely we see differently through theirs. Or 

 does Stewart mean to uphold that they see 

 similarly through their medium with us 

 through ours ? We must continue to look 

 upon colours, to the eye of a fish, as an un- 

 known quality. One fact however is, if 

 nothing else, suggestive. Many times, when 

 trying an underhand cast to get the tail-fly 

 over a rising fish, under an alder or a broken 

 down reed, has our fly been hung up, and 

 the tail-fly has been suspended some four 

 to six inches over his 'wonderful snout,' 

 and we have seen trout or trouts spring 

 clear out of water and hook on to that fly, 

 and, as you may suppose, 'generally stuck 

 to it too.' This proves they can see through 



