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CHAPTER XXVII. 



FISRINa THE MINNOW FOB SALMON. 



It is somewhat the fashion with fly-fishers to consider 

 this style of angling an inferior art and sporting proce- 

 dure, but why such should be the case we fail to per- 

 ceive, provided that it be adopted in its proper place, 

 and in accordance with the unwritten laws which 

 pertain to angling as to all other sports. 



A man who pays £200 for a month's fishing on a 

 stretch of water, which he fishes from a boat, killing 

 with a minimum of exertion a large number of free 

 rising fish with the fly, has no necessity to use the 

 minnow ; indeed its use might be prejudicial to the 

 size of the bag, and we are in accord with him in 

 excluding the use of both natural and artificial baits. 



We confess to being much addicted to the sole use 

 of the fly, but at the same time can scarcely blame the 

 angler for the use of the minnow, when experience tells 

 him that by it he can kill three or four fish to every one 

 with the fly. 



