CHAPTER II. 

 FRESH-WATER FISH. 



I. 



THE BULL TROUT, GREY TROUT, WHITLING OR ROUND TAIL. 



PLATE xii. 1. 



F all fresh- water fishes the Trout is the 

 most beautiful, and for the diversion it 

 affords the Angler, as well as for its superior 

 qualities, is esteemed next to the salmon. 

 In disposition it is singularly capricious 

 and wary, feeding greedily one day upon this coloured 

 fly, or that particular bait, and the next forsaking either 

 the one or the other for a different variety. He is at all 

 times suspicious ; but where the water is much flogged 

 he becomes, from frequent deception, very shy and dis- 

 cerning, and seems to be able to detect the false nature 

 of the lure offered to him, and hence is extremely difficult 

 to capture in some waters, even by the most experienced 

 Angler. 



The Salmo Fario, or fresh-water Trout, is found in 

 almost every river and brook in England. Its natural 

 history will not be fully given here, but left for abler 

 hands to deal with. Being so universally known it hardly 



