Trout Fishing | by W. Earl Hodgson
Contains information about Trout Fishing, with instructions and expertise on the subject. Also contains a list of fishing flies that is to be used in different occasions and times.
| Title | Trout Fishing |
| Author | W. Earl Hodgson |
| Publisher | Adam And Charles Black |
| Year | 1903 |
| Copyright | 1904, Adam And Charles Black |
| Amazon | Trout fishing. |
With A Frontispiece By H. L. Rolfe And A Facsimile In Colours Of A Model Book Of Flies, For Stream And Lake, Arranged According To The Months In Which The Lures Are Appropriate
This Essay In The Study Op Natural Phenomena Written In Summer Was By Permission Inscribed To The Marquess Of Salisbury, K.G.
With Pleasant Remembrance And Propound Respect
It Is Now In Compliance With A Sad But Gracious Suggestion Dedicated To His Memory
Preface- The Book of Flies, inset at the beginning of this volume, is designed for the convenience of the many anglers who, amid the pressure of practical affairs, naturally find it difficult to remember the r...
- The Book Of Flies. March Flies
- Stream Flies 1. Greenwell's Glory. 2. Blue Dun. 3. Olive Dun. 4. February Red. 5. Needle Brown. 6. Black Palmer. 7. Red Palmer. 8. March Brown (Male). 9. March Brown (Female...
- April Flies
- Stream Flies 1. Red Spinner. 2. March Brown (Female). 3. Cow Dung. 4. Light Partridge and Yellow. 5. Woodcock and Orange. 6. Blue Dun. 7. Governor. 8. Olive Dun. 9. Hawthorn...
- May Flies
- Stream Flies 1, Whirling Dun. 2. Stone Fly. 3. Coachman. 4. Light Woodcock and Yellow. 5. Alder. 6. Dark Woodcock and Orange. 7. Sand Fly. 5. Pale Evening Dun. 9. Dark Partr...
- June Flies
- Stream Flies 1. Black and Blae. 2. Hofland's Fancy. 3. Black and Silver. 4. Red and Silver. 5. Black Spinner. 6. Alder. 7. Grey Quill Gnat. 8. Black Quill Gnat. 9. Red Quill...
- July Flies
- Stream Flies 1. Red Palmer. 2. Black Palmer. 3. Iron Dun. 4. Woodcock and Hare's Ear. 5. Woodcock and Red. 6. Woodcock and Black. 7. Blae and Hare's Ear. 8. Red Ant. 9. Blac...
- August Flies
- Stream Flies 1. August Dun. 2. Cinnamon Fly. 3. Dun Midge. 4. Prince Charlie. 5. Jenny Spinner. 6. Willow Fly. 7. Black Spider. 8. Orange Bumble. 9. Honey Dun Bumble. 10....
- September Flies
- Stream Flies 1. Red Spinner. 2. Woodcock and Hare's Ear. 3. Black Gnat. 4. Red Quill. 5. Olive Quill. 6. Cinnamon Fly. 7. Blue Upright. 8. Cairn's Fancy. 9. Greenwell's Glory. ...
- Chapter I. Kinship With The Arts
- Patience: What Kind?—Fishing and Shooting— Angling Cannot be Forced—Billiards, Bridge, and Golf— Keep your Flies on the Water —A Magical Last Resource—Some Idiosyncrasies— C-B- S-, Lochleven Boatman...
- Kinship With The Arts. Part 2
- Angling cajoles the faculty of observation into a state of pleasurable activity which can be understood only through experience. Indolent as he seems as he drifts on the lake, or saunters up the strea...
- Kinship With The Arts. Part 3
- These reflections recall an exception to the rule that flies should not be dragged. One fine June morning Captain Land I were fishing in the Great Stour as it flows round the garden that I love s...
- Kinship With The Arts. Part 4
- After having upset accepted understandings about the salmon, Sir Herbert Maxwell made experiments among the trout, and then published heretical speculations. He had some artificial Mayflies dyed red, ...
- Kinship With The Arts. Part 5
- Contemplating the great variety of the flies which any first-class maker of tackle can provide, one is lost in amazement at the diligence and the skill which have gone towards equipment for the sport....
- Chapter II. The Wind
- A Breeze Desirable—West and South Winds Generally Favourable—Lochleven and Other Exceptions Explained — Trout Not Quite Coldblooded — Direction of Wind does Not Always Determine Temperature—Anti-cyc...
- The Wind. Continued
- The brisk sport enlivening that hour is so familiar that most of us have no thought of how astonishing it is. It comes when the atmosphere is still. Should it not, then, cause us to revise the underst...
- Chapter III. The Temperature
- An Unusual Spectacle—The Explanation—Illustrative Experiment—Looking for Rainbow Trout— A Frost-bound Stream—The Clean Tidiness of the Highlands—What's Wrong with the Cast ?— Strange Beads—An Importan...
- The Temperature. Part 2
- The one in which I had hoped to find the first trout of the year was invisible just above the cascade : ice-covered from bank to bank. However, it was still awake underneath; and I remembered that a m...
- The Temperature. Part 3
- The formation of ice on the bed of the stream was preventing this catastrophe; and so, while seemingly unable to enforce her own law, Nature was really fulfilling her design. The law that water when f...
- The Temperature. Part 4
- For this reason, at the opening of the season anglers seek their sport along the northern shores. It is a true instinct that guides them thither. At the opening of the season trout are most frequent w...
- The Temperature. Part 5
- Sometimes, on a midsummer's eve, one goes out to fish all night; and then, whether the water be a lake or it be a stream, an interesting movement by the trout is invariably noticeable. They may have b...
- Chapter IV. The Light
- Trout's Eyesight Very Keen—Deer, Grouse, and Wild Duck Rely on Other Senses—Do Trout Hear? — Misapprehensions About Light—Mr. Disraeli, P-P-A-, and Others—How Things Look from Under the Water—Emotiona...
- The Light. Part 2
- There is a general objection to almost all of the theories mentioned. It is that they are based on a strangely unscientific understanding of the nature of light. Take the lanes-of-light notion. It was...
- The Light. Part 3
- We remember the very moment when it came sleet-strewn from the north. It died down while we were seated at luncheon under that old oak on the meadow near the farmhouse. Then the light clouds slowly th...
- Chapter V. Are Trout Cunning?
- England and Scotland—The Scotsman's Better Fortune and Less Keen Interest—Scorn for Fancy Flies—Midges Everywhere—Mr. J. Gilbert's Wonderful Basket—His Large Flies—No Rise, Yet Good Sport — Trout...
- Are Trout Cunning?. Part 2
- Lying beside him on the grassy bank where he was seated were the finest five trout I had ever known to be taken from that stream or any other ! Each of them seemed to be well over two pounds. As I ...
- Are Trout Cunning?. Part 3
- The assumption that trout in much-fished waters have become wary is based upon the fact that many of them, having been hooked and lost, lived to fight on other days with more than their native discret...
- Are Trout Cunning?. Part 4
- The otter is a gear, now forbidden by the law, taking a line of gut from which depend two or three dozen flies, each about a foot apart from its neighbours, far out on a river or on a lake. As the poa...
- Are Trout Cunning?. Part 5
- It may be said, If the trout have learned nothing by experience, and, as the poacher with his otter seems to show, cannot discover the ruse which lies in a fly of steel and fur and feather, why do not...
- Chapter VI. Old John, Tim The Terrier, And Others
- A Really Good Day —Why Such a Day is Rare— Design in Nature—Rival Philosophies—Tim's Game of Ball—What Does it Mean ?—Pleasure as an Aim in Life — The Preservation of Species—Nature's Method with t...
- Old John, Tim The Terrier, And Others. Part 2
- Let us reflect on some of these unconsidered trifles. It is a sunny afternoon, and it would be pleasant to be outside ; but I hear that Tim the terrier is about. If I went to a seat in the open air...
- Old John, Tim The Terrier, And Others. Part 3
- Besides, is it not wonderful to realise that the methods of the sportsmen are the only conceivable methods by which trout could be taken without unnecessary suffering ? Imprisonment in a net would pro...
- Old John, Tim The Terrier, And Others. Part 4
- What's air, Dagonet ? I asked. Air—the word, that is—comes from the root tin, aoor, Hebrew and Chaldee; which means, to shine. The sense is to open, to expand; whence clear; or to flow, to shoo...
- Old John, Tim The Terrier, And Others. Part 5
- The discussion might have gone on rather aimlessly but for a fortunate message from T-J- B-, who had friends at dinner across the room. The port was very good : if H. W. M. and I had finished our meal...
- Old John, Tim The Terrier, And Others. Part 6
- Wherever the natural fly can float, there the artificial can float if properly made, and oiled, and used. It is most interesting to watch your fly coming down dancing on the waves, and then di...
- Old John, Tim The Terrier, And Others. Part 7
- In the case of certain of the Ephe- meridae 'either the mother alights upon 'the water at intervals to wash off the ' eggs that have issued from the mouth ' of the oviducts during her flight;...
- Chapter VII. Lake And Stream
- Sport on Stream Less Inconstant—Noted Trout Arrived for the Season—Mysteries of the Lake —Big Fish Lie Low—Trolling Minnows—Needless Strategy—Boats Do Not Alarm—Death to the Unfit—The Deceptive Alexan...
- Lake And Stream. Part 2
- Nevertheless, even if we have to abandon the belief that it is really the gillie, by virtue of his wariness, that is the sportsman in trolling, there is still much scope in minnow-fishing both for kno...
- Lake And Stream. Part 3
- Before Mr. Pennell was working on the problem, or perhaps during that time, this question occurred to myself. It did so because I had noticed that a trout taken on Stewart Tackle was nearly always cau...
- Lake And Stream. Part 4
- Soon, however, all comes right. The stream, which on first being affected by the rain was of a rather noisome mixture of various grays, gradually becomes clay-coloured, with a tinge of ruddiness; by a...
- Lake And Stream. Part 5
- Now, just below the waterfall lay three great trout. They were well known. Approaching carefully, any one could see them from the grassy path above. They had been there, the second-largest just behind...
- Lake And Stream. Part 6
- Day after day in early spring, as has been mentioned in the chapter on Temperature, the sport was disappointing; and that excited the thirst for knowledge. How many trout were in the loch ? Were a lar...
- Chapter VIII. The "Whustler"
- Waiting for the Wind—An Unexpected Rise—A Birr! a Whirr! a Salmon's On! a Goodly Fish ! a Thumper!—Involuntary Cruisings—An Alarming Dive—The Salmon Sulks—A Stirring Squall —Ronald in Despair—Cast o...
- The "Whustler". Part 2
- Michty me, look at that! Tak' the rod, sir—tak' the rod ! We'll ha'e to pu' oot. That was a large dorsal fin and half of a majestic tail angrily protruding, and then a long dark-blue back, as...
- The "Whustler". Part 3
- Fortunately, we did not reach the water-lily bay. A considerable time before he could be in sight of the opportunity offered by its harbourage, the fish was cruising down the middle of the loch. It wa...
- The "Whustler". Part 4
- Happily, the need to consider the query was postponed. The whustler moved. Perhaps the ripple attracted him. The surmise was in accord with a theory which I had been cherishing in secret, and for a mo...
- The "Whustler". Part 5
- This is the Inch, then ? The same. No' a canny place ava'. There's naething but wraiths here—Popish wraiths, tae. I'll be glad when we're weel awa' frae 't. Hoo's the salmon, sir ? Very we...
- Note To The Second Edition
- It has become clear, from certain reviews of this booh, that when they discuss the question whether artificial flies should float or dip anglers are sometimes dealing with a confused problem. One reas...
- Note To The Second Edition. Continued
- He blew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly. Persons of other races are not so confident in their assumptions about what's what. Indeed, there is not in the whole world a scie...
- Appendix. Dressings Of The Lures Depicted In The Book Of Flies. March. Stream Flies
- No. 1. Greenwell's Glory Body Light yellow tying silk waxed with cobbler's wax. Hackle Coch-y-bonddu ribbed with yellow gimp. Wings Inside feather of the blackbird's wing tied on in ...
- March. Lake Flies
- No. 1. February Red Body One turn light claret wool; the remainder, light hare's ear. Hackle Black. Wings The softest quill feather of the pea-hen's wing. No. 2. March Brown Ta...
- April. Stream Flies
- No. 1. Red Spinner Tail Two fibres of a red cock's hackle. Body Red floss, ribbed with silver gimp or thread. Hackle Red cock's. Wings Snipe or starling. No. 2. March Brown ...
- April. Lake Flies
- No. 1. Lord Saltoun Tail Red breast feathers from golden pheasant. Body Black wool ribbed with flat silver. Hackle Black. Wings Jay's wing, blae. No. 2. Woodcock And Red ...
- May. Stream Flies
- No. 1. Whirling Dun Tail Two fibres of red cock's hackle. Body Mole's fur slightly tinged with yellow wool. Hackle Red cock's. Wings Snipe. No. 2. Stone Fly Tail Two f...
- May. Lake Flies
- No. 1. Governor Tail Fibres of red cock's hackle. Body Two turns yellow floss ; remainder, peacock herl. Hackle Red. Wings Woodcock. No. 2. Clialloner Tail Red ibis. ...
- June. Stream Flies
- No. 1. Black And Blae Body Yellow silk thread. Hackle Black. Wings Snipe. No. 2. Hofland's Fancy Tail Two fibres of a red cock's hackle. Tag Flat gold tinsel. Body ...
- June. Lake Flies
- No. 1. Governor Tail Fibres of red cock's hackle. Body Two turns yellow floss ; remainder, peacock herl. Hackle Red. Wings Woodcock. No. 2. Grouse And Olive Tail Red w...
- July. Stream Flies
- No. 1. Red Palmer Body Peacock herl ribbed with gold. Hackle Red cock's from tail to head. No. 2. Black Palmer Body Black wool ribbed with silver gimp or thread. Hackle Blac...
- July. Lake Flies
- No. 1. Blub Bottle Tail Golden pheasant tippet. Body Dark blue wool ribbed with flat silver. Hackle Black. Wings Brown mallard. No. 2. Orange And Yellow Wasp Tail Gold...
- August. Stream Flies
- No. 1. August Dun Tail Two fibres of a red cock's hackle. Body Brown floss ribbed with yellow silk thread. Hackle Red hen's. Wings Brown mottled hen. No. 2. Cinnamon Fly ...
- August. Lake Flies
- No. 1. Zulu Tail Red wool (short). Body Black wool ribbed with silver. Hackle Black cock's, from tail to head. No. 2. Alexandra Tail Fibres of sword peacock. Body Flat...
- September. Stream Flies
- No. 1. Red Spinner Tail Two fibres of a red cock's hackle. Body Red floss ribbed with silver gimp or thread. Hackle Red cock's. Wings Snipe or starling. No. 2. Woodcock And ...
- September. Lake Flies
- No. 1. Greenwell's Glory Body Yellow silk waxed with cobbler's wax and ribbed with gold. Hackle Black and red. Wings Water-hen. No. 2. Teal And Black Hackle Tail Fibres of b...
