FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



In rod fishing, a salmon is both attracted and 

 irritated by an artificial fly that is kept in motion 

 above the spot where he is resting. The fly is 

 never taken, in my opinion, as a food. 



Much depends upon the state of the waters, as 

 regards the fly to be used. If one does not care 

 to purchase a larger number, as they are naturally 

 expensive, I think the following will give entire 

 satisfaction : Jock Scott, silver doctor, silver gray, 

 and black douse. 



The netting of fish in a salmon river affects, to 

 a marked and dangerous degree, any fly fishing. 

 The weirs do but little harm, and with netting 

 abolished, heavy fines and imprisonment being 

 enforced among the law-breakers, the record of 

 salmon taken with rod and fly will increase ten- 

 fold in a very few years. 



Trout are fond of salt. A bag of rock salt that 

 will serve also as a light anchor dissolves slowly in 

 the current, and cools and flavors the water for quite 

 a distance, causing the fish to be attracted to the 

 locality. 



Trout, also, at times, can be lured into taking a 

 fly, when the ordinary casting proves of little value, 

 by smearing the body and wings of a fly with vase- 



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