TROUT FISHING. 



for darkness ; red in medio ; and black for lightness. 

 The yellow dun and red palmer, which has a black 

 head, partake a little of all, and therefore, with the 

 addition of a white moth for dark nights, the angler 

 may, in what few rivers I have ever fished, do vastly 

 well. No doubt, however, that an occasional variety 

 of flies might answer a little better, and particularly 

 if these had been too much hacknied by other people. 

 But, in the long run, I have never found sufficient 

 advantage from variety to be troubled with taking 

 more than two or three kinds of flies. And as to 

 carrying, as many do, a huge book of flies, nearly as 

 large as a family bible, for common trout streams- 

 it is like a beginner in drawing, who uses twenty 

 cakes of colour or more, where a quarter the number, 

 if properly managed, would answer the same purpose. 

 The " piscator" however, has a right to take what 

 he pleases. He may go to the river side with a book 

 of this sort, or even twelve pounds of lead in his 

 pocket ; they will both, perhaps, be equally necessary. 

 But who has a right to find fault ? If he is deter- 

 mined to go well laden to the river why let him. 

 With regard to hooks, I have always found the Irish 

 ones far superior to ours. The best, I believe, are 

 bought in Limerick. 



Now I have given the outline as to tackle, I will 

 proceed as to throwing ; not in my chair, with a pen 

 and ink ; but with a pencil and a book, on the banks 

 of the river. 



