FLIES AND FLY FISHING. 67 



CHAPTER V. 



WHITE TROUT FISHING. 



PLAY OF FLIES FOR DRESSINGS FOR Two FLIES CAST 



HOD HABITS OF PREFERENCE AS TO FLY PROOF OF 



STRIKING PLAYING. 



WHEN this is good, there is no fishing, in my estimation, 

 to equal it. The fish is such a sporting one, his play is 

 so lively and so varied, and altogether he dies so hard ; 

 besides, you often find him in medium sized streams as 

 well as large rivers, and in the former, I always fancy 

 they show more sport. 



It is not necessary that a number of different flics 

 should be imitated, as in the case of brown trout, for the 

 white trout does not feed on one particular fly at a time 

 to the eschcwal of all others. 



The bodies of white trout flies should generally be 

 made of bright floss silks, or a stuff called philozeL 

 Crimson, bright orange,- brown, and lemon, are the best 



colours, ribbed with gold or silver tinsel the latter for 



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