CHAPTER IV 



Pisciculture Temperature Trout and the close season Times of 

 spawning Close season too short The Board of Conservators 

 The appearance of trout What sort of flies to use The 

 cap as a fly-holder Moths Dry fly fishing with three flies 

 The dry fly fisherman's flies Knots used when fishing 

 Wet fly fishing up-stream Striking Wet fly fishing Weeds 

 Long-distance casting Fungus on , grown fish Ambi- 

 dexterity Spinning for trout Where to fish. 



PISCICULTURE 



THE scientific development of the most delightful of all 

 sports namely, fly fishing for trout has produced a 

 corresponding advancement in the breeding of these 

 beautiful and sporting fish, and no book on trout 

 fishing would be complete without a reference to fish 

 culture. Pisciculture as an occupation, if wisely and 

 scientifically pursued, will not only create a fascinating 

 and absorbing interest for the one who takes it up, but 

 it should, under favourable circumstances, become a 

 remunerative and sound commercial business. Al- 

 though dating back to the early Egyptian dynasties, 

 fish culture received its first great impetus in the 

 middle of the eighteenth century, when the possibility 

 of artificially fecundating the ova of fish was dis- 

 covered by one Stephen Ludwig Jacobi, of Hohen- 



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