32 THE DRIFFIELD Aff-GLER. 



he is a much simpler fish than a Trout, for 

 if you miss him ten times, he will still conti- 

 nue to rise at your fly, and this being his 

 peculiar property, that he is more apt to 

 rise than descend, your bait should never 

 drag on the ground, but be three or four 

 inches from the bottom, and for the same 

 reason it will be more proper to use a float 

 than a running line ; but should you use the 

 latter, the best ground-baits are brandlings, 

 gilt-tails, tag-tails, meadow-worins well 

 scoured, cod- bait, bark-worm, and flag- 

 worm ; and at the top he may be taken with 

 either natural or artificial flies, or with the 

 earth-bob, or clap-bait 



THE BULL-TROUT, SALMON-TROUT, 

 SALMON-PEAL, QK SCURF. 



These are all different names for the same 

 fish, in some places it grows to the length of 

 twenty-four inches, in others it seldom ex- 

 ceeds sixteen or eighteen. I have caught 

 them weighing from ten to fourteen pounds, 



