no SHOOTING AND SALMON FISHING 



renting the opposite bank. We recollect a case of this sort 

 where the fishing being given to a family, the father, the three 

 sons, two daughters, with two visitors turned out daily, and 

 as there were but eight pools, each one had more or less an 

 occupant all day. At length the matter was laid, in the most 

 courteous manner, before the donor of the fishing to the family, 

 and the representation being taken in good part, the family 

 rights were at once limited to two rods a day. 



Should anyone be lucky enough to take a fish so heavy that 

 it is not weighable by his steelyard, there is yet an ingenious 

 method of doing this, which was first shown to the author by 

 Captain C. M. Pelham Burn, who rents Pitcroy on the Spey; as 

 we had fished for thirty seasons before hearing of the " dodge," 

 it is probable there are others in the same plight. Suppose 

 the fish is judged to be thirty pounds, while the steelyard will 

 only show up to five-and-twenty, then pick out a stone of over 

 ten pounds weight, tie a cord round it and weigh it exactly ; 

 pass the end of the cord through the ring at the top of the 

 steelyard, and fasten it to the hook at the bottom. Then put 

 the fish on, and before moving the indicator on the scale the 

 weight of the fish will have to lift up the weight of the stone, 

 which, added to what the scale then shows, will be the total. 

 Thus, a thirty -pounder having raised a twelve-pound stone will 

 lower the indicator on the scale to eighteen pounds. 



The author has but very few words to say on rods or 

 tackle, for that has already been very thoroughly done by many 

 others. Rods appear to us to be very much like guns, and 

 because A. can throw his thirty-five yards of line with his 

 pattern, that will be no reason why B. should do the same with 

 a similar one, yet B. will throw quite as well and as far as 

 A. with a rod of a totally different build ; then in steps C, 

 who will beat them both with something wholly different in 

 shape from either. The make of the rod with which an 

 angler is " entered " is the one generally continued ; it may be 

 modified in later years, perhaps improved on, but the build 



