256 SALMON1A. [NINTH DAT. 



highly stocked streams, and have found it difficult to 

 get a brace of fish for the table, as the trout and 

 grayling were all lying at the bottom/ not expecting 

 any winged food at this season. 



A river that runs into a large lake affords, at it 

 junction with the lake, by far the best place for con- 

 tinuous angling, particularly for trout in autumn. 

 The fish are constantly running up the river for the 

 purpose of spawning, and every day offers a succession 

 of new shoals, of which many will take the fly ; I say 

 many, because at this season some of the fish, parti- 

 cularly the females, are capricious, and refuse a bait, 

 of which, under other circumstances, they are greedy. 

 I may say the same with respect to the exit of a river 

 from a lake, to which successions of fishes resort, and 

 though trout are found abundantly in such places, 

 yet they are often still better places for grayling when 

 these fish exist in the lake, the tendency of grayling 

 being rather, as I said on another occasion, to descend 

 than to ascend waters, whilst that of the trout is 

 the contrary. The same principles apply to salmon 

 and sea-trout fishing, which run up rivers from basins 

 of the sea : the best situations for continuous angling 

 are those parts of the river where there is a succession 

 of fishes from the tide. 



POIET. You spoke just now of peasants fishing 

 with the fly in Austria : I thought this art was 



