JUNE 141 



Lochleven trout are indubitably a class 

 by themselves. Their manner of rising 

 is different from that of any other fish 

 that lives in fresh water all the year. An 

 ordinary trout rising at a real fly is as a 

 rule a symbol of leisurely and placid wild- 

 life. He comes to the surface slowly, 

 inhales the insect at his ease, and makes 

 no more than a slowly -expanding dimple 

 on the water. The Lochleven trout darts 

 at the fly with great rapidity, and, though 

 he does not often come into the air, he 

 leaves the surface swirling. When you 

 are facing the sun and the waves are 

 high, you can actually see the wonderful 

 movement. The trout coming at the lure 

 is like a flash of light in the wave, which 

 is sometimes blue, sometimes green. How 

 he contrives to stop exactly when he 

 touches the surface is more than can be 

 told. If it is your own fly he has taken, 

 he goes down with equal violence. Here 

 again he differs from an ordinary trout, 

 which sometimes, when hooked, pauses 

 for a little, as if wondering what has 



