260 SALMON AND TROUT. 
Ir Salmon fishing be, as claimed by its devotees, the ‘ noblest’ 
branch of fly fishing, there can be no doubt whatever that 
Trout fishing is the most popular branch; and, indeed, good 
Trout fishing appears likely soon to become as difficult to get as 
Salmon fishing was twenty years ago. Comparatively, though 
not positively, it is still, however, easy to obtain—just in pro- 
portion, in fact, as there are a hundred streams and lakes con- 
taining the former fish for orie that produces the latter. 
As the taste for Trout fly fishing has increased—which 
is only another way of saying that the Trout is more fished 
for—so does the difficulty of catching him become more 
conspicuous, and success must be sought not alone in a high 
degree of skill in the actual use of the fly rod and line, but also 
in refining to the very utmost every item of tackle employed. 
To keep well out of sight of the fish it is proposed to catch is 
another golden rule, rarely to be neglected with impunity in 
these days of enlightenment and progress. Clearly in this case 
. » . Distance lends enchantment to the view, 
so far as at least one of the parties to the transaction is con- 
cerned. ‘Fine and far off’ is, therefore, a maxim invaluable 
in both Trout and Grayling fishing, and appropriately intro- 
duces the reader to Mr. H. R. Francis’ article, whilst indicating 
at the same time its scope and line of practice, 
H. C.-P. 
