90 Fly Fishing for Sea Trout 



you may be sure of sport, and it will begin in the 

 first pool from the sea ; indeed, in some rivers on 

 the west coast, capital sport may be had with this 

 fish in the brackish waters when the tide is low, but 

 flowing: in others nothing will induce a sea trout 

 to rise until he is well in the fresh water, although 

 the two rivers may only be a few miles apart. 



In fly fishing for sea trout in rivers, you must 

 manoeuvre your fly very much in the same way as 

 when salmon fishing, perhaps working it a little 

 quieter, and these fish will generally take the salmon 

 flies, only to have good sport they should be dressed 

 on smaller hooks. The Blue Doctor and a dark fly 

 with silver twist, which is mentioned in the list of 

 salmon flies, with a Black and Red Palmer, are very 

 killing flies on the west coast. These fish, however, 

 are at times very capricious. In some rivers they 

 will take nothing but large salmon flies, in others 

 nothing but small flies ; for instance, in the Ailort, 

 a big fly on No. 5 hook must be used ; some 

 fifteen miles farther west, in the Morrar, not a fish 

 will look at a big fly ; go still further, and in the 

 Elchaig, on the west coast of Ross-shire, a medium- 

 sized Blue or Black Doctor will raise almost every 

 fish in the river ; again, in the Aline Water, a Black 

 Palmer with scarlet body and gold twist, or a small 

 Harriet, gives better sport than any other fly. 



As Mr. Francis says, Sea Trout, when hooked, are 



