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now in the water and now out ; indeed, an hour or two's 

 white trout fishing, when the fish are in the humour, is about 

 as lively and pleasant a sport as the angler can desire ; and 

 as salmon trout often take the fly well up to six and seven 

 pounds weight, where they are found of that size, the sport 

 is little inferior to the best grilse-fishing. 



As to where they are to be sought, that experience alone 

 will determine, as they abound in many lakes to profusion 

 and take nobly in them. I have myself caught a hundred- 

 weight of them in a day in a lake. They are found in most 

 salmon rivers, and in smaller streams which are too shallow 

 for salmon. The smallest mountain beck will often when in 

 spate give good sport. They also take in salt water, and are 

 quite as likely to be found in the mouth of the river as they 

 are in the highest pool up amongst the mountains, for they are 

 great and pertinacious travellers. You may catch them in 

 salmon pools, in dull eddies, and in sharp streams^; so I can 

 give no advice which would be of any value on that score. 



A double-handed trout rod or a light grilsing weapon will 

 be found the most advisable rod for sport.* The gut should be 

 single, round and sound, and not too coarse, but stouterUhan 

 you would use for ordinary trouting, and two flies may well 

 be used, as you will often have a fish at each when luck attends 

 you. They take bait as freely as fly, and are the most sporting 

 and game fish which the angler meets with. I append a list 

 of sea-trout flies to the list of salmon flies. 



* Right for fishing a river ; but in smaller streams or fishing a lake from 

 a boat a single-handed trout rod is quite effective and less tiring. ED. 



