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which have answered very well. But you may have two 

 small hinges fixed upon the Ion* one, so that it will double 

 up when you are not using it : the rod also may be made 

 to take to pieces. When you go to a lake, or any still 

 water where you intend to angle, launch your lath, and 

 move along the side, and you will see it strike out to- 

 wards the middle, or as far as you will allow it, and it will 

 move as you do. Let your flies dib on the water, and the 

 fish will take them greedily. This way of angling is very 

 destructive; so much so, that it has been prohibited on 

 several waters. 



THE TROUT 



Is of a rather longish make and comes nearer in shape to 

 the salmon than any other fresh-water fish, and is consi- 

 dered by some little inferior in taste. In the summer 

 months when they are in season, the back is of a pale 

 olive colour, interspersed with brown and red spots, 

 which in some cases will extend below the littral line, 

 but the colour in a great measure depends upon the 

 water which they are bred in ; those bred in the Dane 

 and Wye, and such places as have lime-stone or chalky 

 bottoms, are of a lighter colour, (inclining to white), 

 than those bred in the moor lands, where the bottoms are 

 of a darker colour ; indeed those which resort to the 

 sources of rivers amongst the moss-clad hills, are 

 almost black upon the back. I have caught trout of two 

 or three different colours in the same river, more parti- 



