ON TROUTING, TROUT FLIES, ETC. 89 



the meal for which you are hungry after such 

 exercise. 



The method above recommended of throwing 

 aslant, or even due upwards, may to some old ang- 

 lers appear sheer innovation upon old standard habits, 

 as much so as railway trains are to their old notions 

 of wains and carts, stage-coaches, &c. But those 

 fishers who still adhere to the old system of fishing 

 down or across the water, let them match themselves 

 for a day with fishers who fish up the water, and on 

 comparing baskets, the follower of " old saws" will 

 gape with due wonder and dumb astonishment when 

 he finds how much he is outstripped by the followers 

 of " modern instances." 



On the falling in of a flood the trout soon perceives, 

 and sets out on his foray, first on the easy eddies, and 

 sucks in the small flies in thousands, filling his stomach 

 on dainties to repletion. Cut up a trout of a pound 

 weight in such a time, and see in his throat and 

 stomach ten thousand blae midge flies going into a 

 mash amongst six or eight pars and minnows, and 

 find that he has also been so greedy as to take your 

 fly or minnow over all ; and then don't be sorry for 

 having nabbed him, and saved a million more of flies 

 and small fish, each life as precious as his. From 

 the stomach of a trout, of about the above weight 



