FLY-FISHING. 



THE TROUT 



WHEN in season is the most beautiful of all 

 fresh water fish : it is generally studded with 

 black and red spots relieved by a dark olive 

 back mixing with its yellow sides, which gives 

 it a fine appearance. Trout, however, vary 

 much in their colour and form according to 

 the waters you find them in. They spawn in 

 November, at which time they are unwhole- 

 some. In May they are in high season. Their 

 favorite haunts, and where the Angler is likely 

 to have most sport are near weirs or pieces of 

 rock under hollow banks where roots of trees 

 are exposed the junction of two streams, or 

 where there is a fall of water ; also lying in 

 deep holes Just below some shallow where 

 minnows are in the habit of congregating 



