V. 



FLY FISHING FOR SEA TROUT. 



" Ha ! well done, fly ! a leap ; a salmon-peel, 

 Strike smart ! he's hook'd ! now gently with him deal ! " 



The Angler. 



R. FRANCIS FRANCIS in his book 

 on Angling says that the sea trout is 

 one of the gamest fish that swims : 

 "like the champion of the light 

 weights, when he is hooked, he is here, there, and 

 everywhere, now up, now down, now in the water, 

 and now out." And Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell 

 (" Angler Naturalist ") writes : " It is not only in its 

 edible character that the sea trout deserves the 

 good word of anglers ; indigenous in almost all 

 salmon and bull trout rivers, and frequently abound- 

 ing in streams which produce neither one nor the 

 other, there is no fish that swims which will rise so 

 boldly at the fly, or which when hooked shows for 



