14 FLY-FISHING. 



WHITE TROUT, SEWIN, OR 

 SALMON PEEL. 



THESE fish are generally called salmon peel in 

 England, white trout in Ireland, and sewin in Wales, 

 &c. They are, I think, the same sort of fish as are 

 called whitling or finnock in Scotland. They are to 

 be met with in most rivers, however small the river 

 may be, provided there is water enough in it to ena- 

 ble fish to ascend the stream. The reason for their 

 being most frequently met with in the lower parts of 

 rivers only, is that they are prevented from ascending 

 to any great distance by weirs or mill-dams. Where 

 they are found they afford most excellent sport, as 

 they take a fly very freely. In England, I have ta- 

 ken them with a large red palmer, a black palmer, 

 and a gray palmer ; while in Ireland a winged fly 

 is generally used. I have taken as many as thirty 

 in a day in some of the lakes of Connemara, with a 

 small fly made of the same materials as the salmon- 

 fly in use in that country : a few of them weighed as 



