XU USE TWO FLIES. 



when hooked he is here, there, and everywhere, now up, 

 now down, now in the water, and now out ; indeed, an 

 hour or two's white trout-fishing, when the fish are in the 

 humour, is about as lively and pleasant a sport as the 

 angler can desire ; and as salmon-trout often take the fly 

 well up to six and seven pounds weight, where they are 

 found of that size, the sport is little inferior to the best 

 grilse-fishing. They also take a spinning-bait well while 

 still in salt water, and on the west coast of Scotland it is 

 common to fish for them thus. 



As to where they are to be sought, that experience 

 alone will determine. They abound in many lakes to 

 profusion, and take nobly in them. I have myself caught 

 a hundred-weight of them in a day in a lake in Ireland. 

 They are found in most salmon rivers, and in smaller 

 streams which are too shallow for salmon. The smallest 

 mountain beck will often when in spate give good sport. 

 They also, as I have shown, take in salt water, and are 

 quite as likely to be found in the mouth of the river as 

 they are in the highest pool up amongst the mountains, 

 for they are great and pertinacious travellers. You may 

 catch them in salmon pools, in dull eddies, and in sharp 

 streams ; so I can give no advice which would be of any 

 value on that score. They are at times very false risers, 

 and come very short at the fly when making apparently a 

 capital rise. This is very trying to the temper. 



A double-handed trout rod or a light grilsing weapon 

 will be found the most advisable rod for sport. The gut 

 should be single, round and sound, and not too coarse, but 

 stouter than you would use for ordinary trouting, and two 

 flies may well be used, as you will often have a fish at each, 

 when ' luck attend you.' They take bait as freely as fly, 

 and are the most sporting and game fish which the angler 

 meets with. I append a list of sea-trout flies to the list 

 of salmon flies. 



