THE ANGLER'S GUIDE. 117 



When you have hooked your fish, wherever 

 he may be, do not give him any more line 

 than you can help, for they are very game, 

 and will drive here and there all over the 

 stream, if you let them, and very frequently 

 get so entangled, if there be bushes or weeds 

 in the way, that you can never get them out, 

 though your hook is fast in them. A good 

 many trout may be taken by a skilful angler 

 in rivers where they abound, by either of these 

 methods of fishing for them. But the most 

 sportsmanlike and pleasant way of taking them 

 is with the artificial fly ; and many of our best 

 anglers will never attempt to take one by em- 

 ploying any other means. Fly-fishing -for 

 trout is, indeed, taking into consideration the 

 particular construction of the rod, line, and 

 flies, and the superior skill necessary, a depart- 

 ment of the art of angling peculiar to itself, 

 and must be well practised before you can 

 well understand it ; and it is only one here 

 and there who can really throw a fly well. It 

 is also very fascinating, because you can see 

 the fish take the bait ; according to the lan- 

 guage of one of our poets 



" 'Tis pleasant to see the fish 

 Cut with golden oars the silver stream, 

 Aud greedily devour the treacherous bait." 



