100 PRACTICAL LESSONS IN RIVER ANGLING. 



for a long time, motionless near the bottom. In this 

 case also the pehbles must be had recourse to ; for the 

 more a fish is kept in motion, the sooner he becomes 

 exhausted. When he begins to show his side, and ex- 

 hibits other unequivocal symptoms of exhaustion, a 

 favourable landing-place should be looked for ; and 

 when the proper time arrives, which can only be learned 

 by the lessons of experience, then is he to be drawn by 

 degrees to the side. Salmon anglers are in general 

 provided with what is called a gaff, which is a stick 

 somewhat pliable, with a large barbed hook at the end, 

 for the purpose of thrusting into the gills of the fish, 

 and lifting him out of the water, as a landing net is too 

 small. 



The salmon flies require to be much larger— (some- 

 times as large as a small bird,) and more gaudily 

 dressed than for trout. Several flies of this description 

 have been described in books, of which the following 

 are specimens. 



