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by ice), as we know is tbeir habit in our more temperate 
clime. In some rivers, salmon do push right up (and 
their ova are destroyed), but in others they seem con¬ 
tent to spawn in the relatively lower reaches, and leave 
the highest waters to trout. In such rivers, clear as 
glass, there are smooth-running stretches that afford the 
very cream of ily-fishing, the trout averaging half a 
pound or more apiece, and running up to two and three 
pounds and upwards, those feeding just off the heavy 
streams, and at the tail of gravel-beds, as strong and 
game as can be found or desired. A fair-sized fish 
will often commence with a burst of twenty yards as 
straight and clean as a salmon, while two taking together 
produce sensations that make the nervous say their 
prayers. 
For these larger waters I prefer a double-handed 
rod of fourteen or fifteen feet—not from any desire to 
mete out lynch law, but simply in respect of the greater 
area thus commanded. The water, which is intensely 
clear and rapid, is best fished down-stream—exactly as 
in salmon-fishing : hence fine gut is necessary. The 
fiies should be larger than those usually used at home 
—such as are called by tackle-makers “ sea-trout ” sizes ; 
but they must be specially tied on fine gut, the same 
as the cast. 
The patterns for trout are not of such vital im¬ 
portance as for salmon. Among effective lures may be 
mentioned the mallard-wing, Zulu, March-brown, teal- 
and bustard-wing, etc. Winged flies are preferable to 
hackles, with bold or gaudy colours, and tinsel ribbing; 
while a touch of red on tag or tail is always attractive. 
Fishermen labour under an ill-repute—perhaps not 
