CHAPTER IV. 



PISCICULTURE TEMPERATURE 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 WET FLY FISHING UP STREAM STRIKING- 

 WET FLY FISHING WEEDS LONG DISTANCE CASTING FUNGUS ON GROWN 

 FISH AMBIDEXTERITY WHERE TO GO. 



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 circum- 

 stances, become a remunerative and sound commercial 

 business. Although 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 discovered by 

 one Stephen Ludwig Jacobi, of Hohenhausen, in Westphalia. 

 It was not, however, until 1837 tnat nsn culture was in- 

 augurated in Britain by a Mr. John Shaw, who fecundated 

 the ova of salmon and reared the young fish. The United 

 States has, more than any other country, during the last 



