70 THE SEA-TROUT AND SALMON 



winged fly, which should have a bright claret or scarlet body. If the 

 trout refuses this lure he must spear a few small flounders in the 

 shallow water, where they lie with outline hardly distinguishable 

 from the sand, and, cutting a long strip of white from the underneath 

 of the body, attach it to the fly. This invariably proves effective. 

 This form of sea-trout fishing cannot compare, however, with 

 the skilful cast of a fly flung to descend like thistle-down just outside 

 the margin of some lily patch in a quiet pool fringed with alder bushes, 

 where now and again large vibrating circles keep breaking the still 

 water slightly curled by a gentle zephyr. Then to take a four- 

 pounder a man must be a long remove from Dr. Johnson's famous 

 definition of an angler ; he must be a being of parts and erudition. 



THE LOG CABIN, HARRY S RIVER. 



After a run of sea-trout has made a river, for several days and 

 nights they will press eagerly upstream, seldom lying many hours 

 in the same pool. Suddenly, some fine morning, the angler finds 

 that the run has gone by ; but should the water be right, not many 

 days will elapse before another arrival will take the place of those 

 which have passed up river. 



In the little Cod Roy River, abounding in magnificent well- 

 stocked trout pools, with a charming range of blue hills standing 

 out against the horizon in two directions amid a beautiful sylvan 

 environment, the trout fisherman can revel in his favourite pastime. 



