THE FLY FISHER'S GUIDE. 



to those most to be dreaded ravagers, occupiers 

 of mills, who, in a flood (at which time the fry 

 run in shoals), under the pretence of setting 

 baskets for eels, fix them in such a manner as 

 not to admit the possibility of a single fish of any 

 description escaping, however small it may be ; 

 and they have been known to catch such im- 

 mense numbers of samlets, that, for want of 

 knowing what to do with them, they have been 

 under the necessity of throwing them to the 

 pigs. 



THE TROUT. 



Of all fresh water fish, this is the most beauti- 

 ful, and, next to the salmon, is most esteemed 

 by the angler for the diversion it affords. The 

 form of the trout is long, in proportion to its 

 breadth ; having the head round, and sharp teeth 

 in the tongue, as well as in the jaws. When 

 in perfect season, it is thickly studded with 

 red and black spots, which, relieved by the dark 

 olive of the back gradually mixing with the 



