Fly Fishing f 07^ Trout, 119 



particular feeling of satisfaction experienced when 

 a beautiful two-pounder is lying on the grass 

 before you. 



In allusion to this, a well-known trout-fisher 

 friend sends me the following note : — 



" However easily scared a trout may be when 

 he is not feeding, he is bold to indifference when 

 he is. Thus when the fish are rising you may 

 hook, play, land, and kill a dozen fish without 

 moving from the spot on which you stand. I 

 have often done so, and the other day had a 

 good opportunity of seeing what occurs under 

 these circumstances. I was fishing the Bourne 

 in Hampshire, and throwing at one of two fish 

 which were busily feeding within a yard of each 

 other. At last I hooked him and we had a battle 

 — he to get under a bush, in the shadow of which 

 the second one was feeding, and I to keep him 

 out. The result was that the hubbub about and 

 around the second fish Avas very great, yet he 

 never moved, and as soon as I landed my friend 

 and the current was restored number two went 

 on feeding, and I believe if I could have got a 

 fly over him (which I could not on account of the 

 bush) I should have killed both fish." 



When trout are on the feed and have risen at 

 and not taken your fly, they will seldom come 

 again (a grayling will, but a trout as a rule will 



