64 FAVOURITE RESORTS OF SALMON. 



Two rocks or large stones opposite to each other, 

 and somewhat apart, form two currents which 

 meet in an angle ; within, or a little above this 

 angular point, salmon constantly lie. The fly 

 should be thrown a little below the angular, or 

 pointed, meeting of the currents, and then be 

 worked first straight up the middle between 

 them, and then on the inner side of each current. 

 In good rivers I have seldom failed to find fish in 

 spots like the last described. I would never fish 

 in the boiling foam, underneath waterfiills and 

 weirs ; but where this water runs smoothly and 

 swiftly away, I would fish most carefully, as it 

 is there those salmon lie which have been, in their 

 first attempts, unable to surmount the falls or 

 weirs. 



When fishing, in February or !March, early 

 rivers, you w^ill find salmon take well on mild, 

 soft days, after frosty nights ; but then they will 

 be invariably found at the tails of pools, no matter 

 in what part of the river those pools may be. In 

 the early spring months, when there is a succes- 

 sion of fine open weather, salmon are found in 

 all parts of pools, heads and tails, and if in the 

 latter localities there be a large block of stone 

 forming an easily-stemmed eddy, they will be 

 found in it; because it is at the same time a 



