X TROUT FISHING 



Booh of Flies. After much consideration, 

 there were three reasons for this course. 

 In the first place, however strong might he 

 one's own opinion on the subject of lake 

 flies, which has not until now, I be- 

 lieve, been treated systematically, it seemed 

 right to defer to general usage to the 

 extent, at least, of stating what the usage 

 ivas. In the second place, experience 

 renders it impossible to deny that some- 

 times the standard sizes are to be considered 

 right, or, at any rate, not wrong. When 

 the wind is high, all the aspects of a lake, 

 even its length and breadth, seem to be on 

 a larger scale, and to grow with the growth 

 of the waves; the very trout increase in 

 voracity and in daring then, and come at 

 the standard flies so well that it is not 

 easy to consider the standards a mistake. 

 In the third place, many of the lakes 

 which contain brown trout contain, at 

 times, sea-trout and salmon also; and in 

 regard to these fish flies larger than the 

 real insects are certainly an advantage. 

 It has been found that salmon now and 



