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expedient proved successful; and we returned home with 

 a very full basket of trout. 



We beg to remark, that we have never used the pre- 

 pared salmon-roe for trout, excepting twice, in our whole 

 life. We have always thought it beneath the character 

 of a genuine sportsman to employ it ; and on this account, 

 we refrain from giving any directions, either for making 

 or using it. We have occasionally, indeed, witnessed its 

 deadly and destructive effects; but these very effects 

 acted upon us as the strongest repellents against its use. 

 We once saw two country fellows on the river Tweed, 

 about five miles above the town of Howick in Roxburgh- 

 shire, kill as many trout with this preparation, in a few 

 hours as filled a good-sized sack ; and we then made a 

 rule never to use it. Indeed, it is not angling, in any 

 honest and proper sense of the word. 



The French anglers catch hundreds of trout in the 

 months of May and June with the natural May-fly. 

 They put him alive on a small hook, and let him float 

 down the stream, and are generally very successful. They 

 throw or spin their fly into particular spots with consider- 

 able dexterity; but this fly-fishing closes when the May- 

 fly is gone. Many of the English on the continent imi- 

 tate this practice; but it is a beggarly unsportsmanlike 

 affair, and ought to be cashiered altogether. 



8 for fifce. 



There are various methods of catching the pike. He 

 may be snared, trimmered, angled for with the float, 

 huxed, trolled, snapped, shot, and unfortunately, in 

 the open rivers of England, he is remorselessly and ille- 

 gally netted. 



The trick of SNAKING used to be and we suppose is 



