WHITE-TROUT FISHING. I31 



Wales. To anglers, by far the most interesting species 

 is the Salmon Trout. 



Salmon Trout fishing when good is perhaps, at any 

 rate for a time, the most fascinating of all fishing. In- 

 digenous in many of our best Salmon and Bull Trout 

 rivers, and frequently abounding in streams which 

 produce neither the one nor the other, there is no fish 

 that swims which rises more fearlessly to the fly, or 

 when hooked, shows for its size such indomitable — 

 English pluck I was about to say — but at any rate such 

 determined and enduring courage. In fact, the bright 

 graceful Salmo tnitta is the most game and mettlesome, 

 if not, on the whole, the most beautiful fish known to 

 Europe, or probably to the world. 



Although the Don, the Spey, Tay, Annan, Nith, and 

 many other Scotch waters, as well as a few English 

 rivers produce the Sea Trout in tolerable abundance, 

 Ireland must be considered as its home par excellence. 

 Many of the streams and lakes on the west coast of 

 Ireland produce Sea Trout in an abundance, rare if not 

 unknown, in the sister Island. 



Salmon Trout are migratory, and in this respect re- 

 semble the Salmon more than the Brown Trout ; other 

 of their habits, however, seem more allied to the 

 latter species, and, as remarked in one of the 

 earlier Chapters of this book, the fish would appear to 

 stand in its habits and instincts somewhere about mid- 

 way between the two. So with regard to the flies 



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