CHAPTER III. 



MOORLAND TROUT, 



Habits and Haunts — Bod and TacMe for Fly-fishing — Some 

 Useful Flies — Casting the Fly — Playing the Fish — Dibbing 

 or Dapping the Natural Fly — Worm-fishing in Clear and 

 Coloured Water — Spinning the Minnow — Artificial Spin- 

 ning Baits — Trolling-Snap TacMe. 



EAYING the quiet-flowing streams of the 

 low -lying lands, with their fat, lusty 

 trout, which have so severely tested our 

 patience and skill, let us journey to the 

 country of moorland and mountain, and 

 wet Our lines in rivers of quite another 

 character. E-ocks now take the place of 

 weeds; in lieu of mills we have water- 

 falls ; and almost everywhere is quick-running water, now 

 rippling over a gravelly bottom, anon foaming among big 

 boulders, or dashing down some rocky gorge. Such streams 

 as these we find principally in the north of Scotland, and the 

 mountainous parts of Ireland and Wales, in Derbyshire, and 

 on the moorlands of Yorkshire and Devon. 



The trout in so many of these streams as are unpolluted 

 by mines or manufactories multiply rapidly, but rarely average 

 over ^Ib. Five to the pound is not an uncommon average. 

 A few fish, however, may reach the comparatively enormous 

 weight of 21b., and are as harmful in the stream as pike. 



