TROtJT HSHINa. 



Several of the Subscribers to this little work having 

 expressed a desire that I would devote a short space to the 

 subject of Trout fishing, I have felt great pleasure in com- 

 plying with their request, and now devote a few leaves to 

 the naode of fishing — the when — and the where to fish, &c. 



As in Salmon fishing, so in Trout : a little practice is 

 worth a volume of theory, and that particularly in fly fish- 

 ing ; in fact, nothing but practice will make a fly fisherman. 

 Bait fishing, though requiring a little judgment, is more 

 accidental in its results. I have been beaten by a lady, 

 fishing from the same boat ; the fish appeared to prefer 

 being taken by her line and hook, and very few came to 

 my share. The fly fisher is ever called on to bring into 

 practice those reasoning faculties which we must suppose 

 the fisher to possess. He must know that the soft warm 

 breezes of June, bring into existence the innumerable 

 Epbemera tribe ; and that more particularly the evening, 

 shews them skipping and dancing lightly o'er river, lake 

 and stream. He wUl then — 



" See the Trout in speckled pride 

 Sportive to the bosom spring." 



Consequently, the best thing that he can do is to see what 

 sort of a fly, or flies, the fish are rising at, and choose from 

 his fly book those that more nearly approach, in color and 

 size, the natural fiy, and by his skill try to imitate their 



