Fly Fishing for Sea Trout. 9 1 



almost as much out of the water as in ; their leaps 

 are surprising, one after the other in quick succes- 

 sion, and often they leap themselves off the hook. 

 A fresh-run sea trout of from three to four pounds 

 in a rapid river, with a double-handed trout rod, 

 gives splendid sport, and from his gameness keeps 

 one on the tenterhooks of excitement till he is 

 landed ; he never gives in, and is struggling and 

 plunging when you put the net under him. On a 

 favourable day, with a Black and Red Palmer, or a 

 small Silver Doctor, and the fish fresh running, you 

 may surfeit yourself, but you cannot leave off, the 

 sport is too exciting. The places to fish for them 

 are long stretches of not very deep water, with not 

 too much stream, the tails of pools, and the pools 

 near the sea ; they come with a rush, and one is 

 inclined to strike them too soon, and so lose them, 

 just touching them. They don't hook themselves as 

 a salmon does, but come up straight at the fly, and 

 often miss it, making a great floppy noise ; in the 

 rivers you must give them a little time to recover 

 themselves, and if you do this they will rise again, but 

 if you throw over them at once, your chance is not 

 so great. In the lochs it is quite the other way, you 

 must cast instantly over a fish that has risen to you. 

 In loch fishing for sea trout a different mode 

 must be followed to that employed in the river. 

 And it is a curious fact that both salmon and sea 



