42 THE TROUT 



coming as it does when the country is in the first and 

 best bloom of its beauty, must always appeal strongly 

 to the feelings of any fisherman. 



Obviously these remarks as to fly fishing for trout 

 do not apply to the procedure adopted when lake 

 fishing. Nay, as has been shown, Mayfly fishing is 

 to a certain extent different ; so is the use of the stone- 

 fly, and so is fishing for the big trout of the Thames. 

 Everything hitherto suggested has had relation to 

 the ordinary methods of fly fishing in English rivers. 



