LOCH SALMON-FISHING. 



WHEN salmon -fishing in the Tweed many years 

 ago, with one of the most scientific lidbitu&s of 

 that river, I casually asked him whether a late 

 celebrated Professor was really so good a fisher as 

 he got credit for ? He answered, with a shrug, 

 " Oh, he's only a trouter." Had this man been 

 only a salmoner, a plain inference might be drawn ; 

 but he was undeniably as expert at small fish as 

 large. Indeed, I cannot conceive an adept at sal- 

 mon-fishing who has not laid the foundation by a 

 thorough knowledge of all the best modes of cap- 

 turing trout. For my own part, I began at six 

 years old, with a crooked pin and worm, to dabble 

 for minnows and loacb.es> being gradually pro- 

 moted to a hook and float for perch-angling; then 



