150 " SALMONIA. 



are usually shyer even than trout, and I 

 never knew one in this season that had been 

 pricked even slightly, rise again at the arti- 

 ficial fly in the same pool. I should say 

 that their habits were precisely the same, 

 but with more sagacity on the side of the 

 salmon. It must have been another fish 

 which rose at your fly in the same place. 

 After such severe discipline I do not think 

 a fish would rise for many hours, even at a 

 natural bait. 



Poiet. — Your experience is so great, that 

 I dare say I was mistaken, yet it seemed a 

 fish of the same size. 



Hal. — Salmon often in this season haunt 

 the streams in pairs ; but so far from rising 

 again after being pricked, they appear to 

 me to learn when they have been some time 

 in the river, that the artificial fly is not food, 

 even without having been touched by the 

 hook. In the river at Galway, in Ireland, I 

 have seen above the bridge some hundreds 

 of salmon lying in rapid streams, and from 

 five to ten fishermen tempting them with 

 every variety of fly, but in vain. After a 



