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other, there is no fish that swims which rises more 

 fearlessly to the fly, or when hooked, shows for its 

 size such indomitable English pluck I was about 

 to say but at any rate such determined and en- 

 during courage. In fact, the bright graceful 

 Salmo trutta is the most game and mettlesome, if 

 not, on the whole, the most beautiful fish known 

 to Europe, or probably to the world. 



Although the Don, the Spey, Tay, Annan, 

 Nith, and many other Scotch waters, as well as a 

 few English rivers produce the Sea Trout in 

 tolerable abundance, Ireland must be considered 

 as its home par excellence. Many of the streams 

 and lakes on the west coast of Ireland produce 

 Sea Trout in an abundance, rare if not unknown, 

 in the sister Island. 



Salmon Trout are migratory, and in this re- 

 spect resemble the Salmon more than the Brown 

 Trout ; other of their habits, however, seem 

 more allied to the latter species, and, as already 

 remarked, the fish would appear to stand in 

 its habits and instincts somewhere about mid- 

 way between the two. So with regard to the 

 flies used for their capture ; in size and shape 

 they more commonly bear a resemblance to 

 natural insects, a resemblance which cannot be 



